{"id":12419,"date":"2025-05-05T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=12419"},"modified":"2025-04-28T06:19:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:19:59","slug":"good-judgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/good-judgment\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Judgment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One-minute read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Blue-Pink-Simple-Hello-May-Facebook-Post-Square-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Blue-Pink-Simple-Hello-May-Facebook-Post-Square-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Blue-Pink-Simple-Hello-May-Facebook-Post-Square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Blue-Pink-Simple-Hello-May-Facebook-Post-Square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Blue-Pink-Simple-Hello-May-Facebook-Post-Square-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Blue-Pink-Simple-Hello-May-Facebook-Post-Square-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Blue-Pink-Simple-Hello-May-Facebook-Post-Square.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGood\u201d in Hebrew \u201ccan refer to quality as well as to moral goodness.\u201d While \u201cta\u2019am,\u201d the original word for judgment in this verse, means \u201cdiscernment, \u2018to turn from discernment\u2019 means \u2018to pretend to be insane.\u2019\u2019 Through His commandments, God teaches us to make wise decisions. When we turn from His ways, insanity ensues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listening to a podcast, a retired undercover FBI agent shared stories from his 25-year career. Infiltrating a biker gang who had no respect for life, one of the members had a sign on his wall, \u201cWWSD.\u201d The letters stood for \u201cWhat would Satan do?\u201d Stunned, the agent had never seen anything like the plaque before, but he knew the biker lived by the motto. Burning Bibles, causing harm to others, utter chaos reigned in the now defunct gang\u2019s life as they turned from God and followed evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People choose who they follow and what commands they practice in their lives. When they choose Jesus, they find righteous living that brings joy to the heart. But when they make different choices, their actions reflect their beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lord\u2019s commands lead to discernment and good judgment, giving us abundant life. Turning from His way brings misery. Choose wisely who you will follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Prayer:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Lord,<br>Thank You for giving us commandments we can trust and follow. Please help us make wise decisions as we practice Your ways, following You with all we have.<br>IJNIP. Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-minute read. \u201cGood\u201d in Hebrew \u201ccan refer to quality as well as to moral goodness.\u201d While \u201cta\u2019am,\u201d the original word for judgment in this verse, means \u201cdiscernment, \u2018to turn from discernment\u2019 means \u2018to pretend to be insane.\u2019\u2019 Through His commandments, God teaches us to make wise decisions. When we turn from His ways, insanity ensues.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/good-judgment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good Judgment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12424,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419\/revisions\/12424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}