The implied answer is, no one! Sin is a stubborn squatter in our hearts. We drive it out, but it returns with a vengeance. When the young man calls Jesus "Good teacher," Jesus points out that only God is good. Today we have a tendency to look to the good in people and define them by that. This is not wrong in itself, recognizing the common grace God gives everyone to do kindness and love others. But we cannot in that recognition reject the truth that "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" (Jeremiah 17:9).
Verse 24 - "A man's steps are from the Lord; how then can man understand his way?"
Verse 24 - "A man's steps are from the Lord; how then can man understand his way?"
God knows us better than we know ourselves. We like to think we have deliberate, clear and biblical rationale for everything we do, but we don't. Since we aren't omniscient, we can't make well-informed decisions about the future. We trust God and go with what we know to be true. This verse especially leans us upon the Lord, instead of our own understanding. This doesn't mean we should intentionally do things out of ignorance, or stay unstudied if we have an opportunity to learn something. But we can't know it all.
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