Doing what feels right?

Is there a difference between doing what's right and what feels right? Check out 1 Sam 26:1-12 #iDevo #YFA #LivingLeadership

You ever have the friend who doe not just has your back but gets offended for you. That was Abishai for David he was the crazy person willing to follow David into the jaws of death. 3,000 elite warriors protecting Saul and David is causally going to go right into the enemy’s camp. I feel like Abishai is like a Klingon warrior from Star Trek saying, “today is a good day to die.” As they head off for what is potentially the last battle of their lives. They manage to walk right into the center of the camp. Saul and his men are all asleep as well as the guards at their posts. No one is awake to see the two men walking through the camp or sound the alarm to wake everyone up. They get to king Saul, the man who has tried to kill David on more than one occasion and in one quick move everything could have been finished. Saul would have been dead and David would have been king. Abishi is all for it and I can imagine him standing over king Saul begging and pleading with David to let him end all their problems and he would have been right. It felt like the right thing to do and no harm would have probably come to David for defending himself and protecting his men. But David had another value that was higher, to not lay a hand on the Lord’s anointed.

In the same way we can come into a conflict and know the best course of action and also a lesser one that still feels right. One takes the high road, the other brings us down to the same level of our adversity. Neither is necessarily wrong but when we choose to follow God and let Him fight our battles it sets us up higher than before. In the end we have to realize that we can choose a good thing or a great thing. Those on the outside will push us to choose the good thing (what feels right) but our hearts and our relationship with God will help us in choosing the great thing (His best for us).