I am reminded of an amusement ‘ride’ at Six Flags of Texas where we walked through a house and saw that both water and a ball went uphill, seemingly defying gravity. How do you know when things are level when you are walking on a hill? Sometimes it seems like the world around me is a path of dips and curves with skewed paths to the left, right, up and down and I have no idea which way is which. Then there are those who are enticing me to take this road or that. They tell me that their road is the level one. So who do I listen to? No one? Everyone? My gut?

Today’s world is horribly deceptive and confusing. There is relentless competition for my attention. Everyone from loved family members to billion dollar companies compete for my allegiance. There are those who are smarter than me, experts in their field, pointing to turn here or there. But not even those experts agree with each other on the right path. So confusion is the norm. How can anyone in this life find true North? Is it true that each person has a different right way or is there only one true North for all? 

The answers to these questions are addressed in the Bible. But you must choose. Do you accept the Bible as the authority or are some of today’s experts wiser than Solomon and all the other inspired writers of the books of the Bible? Is our generation more brilliant and informed than any other, negating all the words of anyone in previous generations? You must choose, choose wisely, and you must continue to choose daily. Because those haranguing voices are only going to get louder if you don’t.  

Job 38:1-41; 40:1-2 NLT 
Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind: 

"Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words? Brace yourself like a man, because I have some questions for you, and you must answer them. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much. Who determined its dimensions and stretched out the surveying line? What supports its foundations, and who laid its cornerstone as the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? Who kept the sea inside its boundaries as it burst from the womb, and as I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it in thick darkness? For I locked it behind barred gates, limiting its shores. I said, 'This far and no farther will you come. Here your proud waves must stop!'"

"Have you ever commanded the morning to appear and caused the dawn to rise in the east? Have you made daylight spread to the ends of the earth, to bring an end to the night's wickedness? As the light approaches, the earth takes shape like clay pressed beneath a seal; it is robed in brilliant colors. The light disturbs the wicked and stops the arm that is raised in violence. Have you explored the springs from which the seas come? Have you explored their depths? Do you know where the gates of death are located? Have you seen the gates of utter gloom? Do you realize the extent of the earth? Tell me about it if you know!"

 "Where does light come from, and where does darkness go? Can you take each to its home? Do you know how to get there? But of course you know all this! For you were born before it was all created, and you are so very experienced! Have you visited the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of hail? (I have reserved them as weapons for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war.) Where is the path to the source of light? Where is the home of the east wind?"

"Who created a channel for the torrents of rain? Who laid out the path for the lightning? Who makes the rain fall on barren land, in a desert where no one lives? Who sends rain to satisfy the parched ground and make the tender grass spring up? Does the rain have a father? Who gives birth to the dew? Who is the mother of the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens? For the water turns to ice as hard as rock, and the surface of the water freezes."

"Can you direct the movement of the stars--binding the cluster of the Pleiades or loosening the cords of Orion? Can you direct the constellations through the seasons or guide the Bear with her cubs across the heavens? Do you know the laws of the universe? Can you use them to regulate the earth? Can you shout to the clouds and make it rain? Can you make lightning appear and cause it to strike as you direct? Who gives intuition to the heart and instinct to the mind? Who is wise enough to count all the clouds? Who can tilt the water jars of heaven when the parched ground is dry and the soil has hardened into clods? Can you stalk prey for a lioness and satisfy the young lions' appetites as they lie in their dens or crouch in the thicket? Who provides food for the ravens when their young cry out to God and wander about in hunger?"

"Do you still want to argue with the Almighty? You are God's critic, but do you have the answers?"

John 14:6 NLT

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

You must choose.