I’ve heard a lot of this in my lifetime.
This is my life, leave me alone. Nobody else walks in my shoes. The good Lord gave me a brain and I intend to use it the way I see fit.
Where these may seem like real strong popular ideas on the earth and in the good ole day and age we live in, they’re not the words we’re told to live by according to the Lord.
Proverbs 14:12 – 12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
Isaiah 55:8 – 8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD.
We know by these passages that in our fallen state we don’t think as the Lord thinks. Now are we going to get closer to the Lord by having the above attitude that I am the only one who knows what’s best for me?
I would say Proverbs 14:12 and Proverbs 16:25, which says the exact same thing, say that humans don’t know what’s best for them. We don’t have the thoughts of God, because we have fallen into sin.
The Lord wants us in that brain he gave us, to choose Him and His ways by our own freewill. How do we do that? By dying to our wants and wishes and saying yes to His.
Galatians 2:20 – 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
I think Peter says it best when talking about what our lives should be when living for God.
1 Peter 4:1-6 – 1 Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin. 2 As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. 3 For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. 4 They think it strange that you do not plunge with them into the same flood of dissipation, and they heap abuse on you. 5 But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 6 For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged according to men in regard to the body, but live according to God in regard to the spirit.
God didn’t give us a life to live selfishly for ourselves. Our attitude isn’t to say this is my life leave me alone. The attitude we need to have is, “Lord, my life without You or when I’m not living for You, is a mess. Not only that but it’s not how I’m supposed to live.”
Submit your life to the Lord and come time to sit in front of the Judge of all, you’ll be glad you did. Reflect on this, I really believe the time is coming to a close concerning the church age. I believe the rapture is near. How near? I don’t know. The signs of His Second Coming are everywhere and we need to all live like its tomorrow.