Where In The Bible Will I Find:

The Way Of Man Is Not God's Way?

From the earliest beginning man has desired his own way. Eve had her own way when she ate the forbidden fruit after God had said, "...Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die" (Gen. 3:3). Adam and Eve's punishment for this sin brought on their spiritual death and they were driven from the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:24). Cain had his own way when he offered the fruit of the ground to the Lord in place of what was pleasing to the Lord (Gen. 4).

His disobedience and rebuke caused him to be so angry with his brother that he killed him. For his sin God put a curse on him and drove him out from the presence of the Lord (Gen. 4:16).

Nadab and Abihu, sons of Aaron, had their own way when they used a different fire that what God had commanded. For their sin God struck them dead (Lev. 10:1-2).

King Saul had his own way when he spared the king of Amalek and some of the flock after God had commanded that he was to utterly destroy all the Amalekites (I Sam, 15:3, 18-19). For his sin Saul was removed from being king of Israel (I Sam. 15:26). God had said through the prophet "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes..." (Prov. 12:15).

There are two ways listed in the Bible, Man's ways, which are unrighteousness, and God's ways, which are righteousness. The prophet declared, "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" (Prov. 14:12; 16:25).

Man today is still desiring his own way. He reads in the Old Law about the Sabbath day, the use of instruments of music in the worship, the wearing of robes, tithing, etc., and so he wants to bring them over into the New Law where God has not authorized them. 

Man thinks his ways are better than God's ways. But God has said, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Isa. 55:8-9).

If only man would harken to the voice of the prophet, "O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps" (Jer. 10:23). Our Lord Jesus Christ taught about the way, "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it" (Matt. 7:13-14), and, "...I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" (John 14:6).

We must remember that God is still in control, He made man, He made the law and the way in which man is to follow. When we seek to destroy this law and go by our own way we will most certainly suffer the consequences.