The Addiction To Certainty
We love being right.
It feels like strength.
It feels like safety.
It feels like control in a world that refuses to slow down.
But the desire to be correct can quietly take over.
We cling to our opinions as if they were unshakable truths.
We defend our pride harder than we seek wisdom.
And the cost shows up everywhere.
At home, we win the argument but lose the intimacy.
At work, we protect our ego instead of protecting the team.
Online, we score points but wound people.
“Every way of a man is right in his own eyes,
but the Lord weighs the heart.” (Proverbs 21:2)
That verse does not just describe others.
It describes me.
It exposes the way I can convince myself I am right
while my heart is drifting.
The Pharisees thought they had it right, too.
They had answers for every question.
They had arguments for every challenge.
But in their certainty, they missed Jesus standing in plain sight.
The need to win can make us lose what matters most.
The hunger to be right can blind us to the truth.
So here is the question I have to ask myself:
Am I holding on to the thrill of winning an argument?
Or the freedom of being changed by truth?
Because one feeds my pride.
The other frees my soul.
One keeps me in control.
The other places me in God’s hands.
God does not weigh the argument. He weighs the heart.
And that is the only place where rightness truly matters.
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