One of the things that I often heard my Dad say was, “Always do the right thing because it is the right thing.” People often say, “It is so hard to know what is right.” No, it isn’t; we always know the right thing to do. The problem is that the right thing is usually the hard thing, and we would rather do the easy thing, so we make the choice hard because, in our mind, we are trying to talk ourselves into doing the easy thing, and we confuse our own conscience.

The Apostle Paul says in Galatians 6:7, “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.”

That means that when we do what is right, we will reap the rewards of the right choice we made, and when we do what is wrong, unwise, selfish, or hurtful, we will reap the consequences.

The problem for many is that the crop that we reap is delayed long enough after the sowing that we don’t connect the dots between our choices and the consequences that occur in our life; we blame them on our boss, our neighbors, or the government, and never grow in wisdom, so we keep making the same easy choices in life.

It doesn’t take much listening to conversations before you hear someone blaming someone else for their problems. Every morning, it is a simple commitment: “Today, I will not complain or grumble, and I will not blame anybody else for my problems.” It is simple to make but not easy to keep, but if we keep making the commitment, we will move in the right direction.