“Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it“. Psalms 127:1
In other words, a person cannot truly succeed by going down any other path except God’s path…the one He has defined in His Word, the Bible.
To try to succeed…to try to find happiness…to try to find satisfaction and fulfillment…on some other path that excludes God…or that is outside of God’s precepts…is foolishness.
Any path except God’s path is one that is sure to lead to heartache and failure.
Bizarrely, some people can literally EXPERIENCE a path of heartache and failure…a path that they may have started on without God…or one wherein they abandoned God somewhere along the way…and it inevitably results in heartache and failure…but they don’t learn the lessons…and after they cry their tears, they just take off on yet another path without God…one that will just as surely result in EVEN MORE heartache and failure.
Equally as bizarre, some people will “talk your ear off” about “God” the whole while they walk their path wherein they have rejected God and His commandments, truths, and precepts. These are the people the Bible talks about who deceive their own selves (James 1:22).
Now, I know that our “progressive/liberal” world espouses the idea that “right” and “truth” can be self-defined and self-selected…and that all ways can be “right” and “truth”. But, mark the words of Jesus Christ:
“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. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7:13-15