Numbers 15.39 warns that we are not to follow after our own heart and eyes that lead us to unfaithfulness.

The Lord told Israel to remember His commands and to obey them, to know them well and make constant reminders for remembering them so that they would not do what their feelings told them or pursue what their eyes lusted upon.

God’s ways are not man’s ways so men must seek God and His ways in order to know God and to please Him.

God has not hidden Himself nor has He made His demands obscure, rather God has personally visited us in Jesus and has recorded clearly what He requires from humanity so that we might please Him.

There will be a final exam, a day of accounting, when God will judge each person according to His will and His ways that He has made known to everyone.

Many will fail this test, many will be condemned by God for they have ignored His commands and loved what was right in their own eyes. Many people think they know inherently what is right and wrong. Many people dismiss God’s clear teachings in order to justify their own behavior that is directly opposite what He has told us He commands.

While we temporarily seem impervious to His judgment all people die and all people will be judged and all people will be sentenced either to heaven for all eternity because they loved God and obeyed His commands or to hell for all eternity because they ignored God and did what was right in their own sight.

The fool says there is no God. Wise is the person who humbles himself before the Creator and Judge of all mankind choosing to obey Him instead of pleasing self.

As an added bonus, those who do seek to please God find their life to be the happiest and most satisfying of all because God is good and so too are His ways.