Que Sera Sera??

Proverbs 4: 24-27
Keep your mouth free of perversity;
keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
Let your eyes look straight ahead;
fix your gaze directly before you.
Give careful thought to the paths for your feet
and be steadfast in all your ways.
Do not turn to the right or the left;
keep your foot from evil.

A friend of mine testified that he was surrounded by obscene talks all the time. Even though he did not participate in those conversations, it wore him down every day for a period of time. Cursing and the misuse of Christ’s name was the dialect among his friends. Not wanting to be the odd one out, he hung out with these people until one day the perversity of these conversations ceased to offend or disturb him. Then one day he was woken up by his wife from his sleep. His wife told him that he had been talking in his sleep for the past few nights. But what was appalling to the wife was that he was cursing all kinds of obscenity in his sleep!

Even though consciously my friend had avoided all kinds of contamination from his own mouth, the company he kept has had an impact on him. The realization so shook him up that he told his friends about his struggle and desire to be holy. To his surprise, his friends respected his wish and became careful with their language whenever he was around. Those who were offended by his confession just ceased to hang out with him. My friend was glad because he said, “I found out who are my true friends that day.”

We are to give careful thought to the path ahead of us – to be deliberate and weigh the consequences of how our lives will turn out if we continue with our present association and route. Life is afterall not just an accident. It is a result of our choices and decisions made along the way.

Verse 27 continues the admonition to ‘be steadfast in all your ways’ – it is the presupposition that we have already decided what is the right way to go – and to keep at the decided decision (forgive the double emphasis).

So if you have been living with a “Que Sera Sera” kind of attitude – whatever will be will be – it is not a biblical way. The God-anointed way of living is to know the truth, decide to follow the true way of integrity and then keep at it.