Doing the Right Things

I've done too many wrong things

I thought were for right reasons

I've searched the limits of my faith

beyond its farthest regions.

To assume a thing is right

when it, in fact, is wrong

causes a separation

and a nagging all day long.

It makes me think back over

the words I spoke today

perhaps an unkind deed or thought

that just won't go away.

These times I feel like a toddler

taking baby steps t'ward Him

I fall before I reach His Arms

and must crawl back again.

Though in each trial God has a plan

to teach me His instructions

He brings my actions into view

so I make no assumptions,

and in these times I learn to lean

upon His sweet detention

for that 'nagging' I have felt

is God's loving conviction.

My Lord is Truth and Spirit

to avoid the serpent's stings

for all of the right reasons

I will learn to do right things.

Proverbs 1:3 ~ To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

Proverbs 1:7 ~ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.