How to Know What Is Right: Five Questions Every Christian Must Ask
July 28, 2025
Before a decision. Before a habit takes root. Before compromise gets dressed in Christian language. There is a question most believers don’t ask soon enough: Is this right?
Not Is it popular? Not Is it allowed? Not Will anyone notice? But Is this pleasing to God?
And here’s the hard part: you won’t even ask that question until your heart is ready to obey. Not ready to debate. Not ready to bargain. Ready to obey.
That’s where everything begins. That’s where clarity lives.
The Willing Know What’s Right
John 7:17 isn’t a suggestion. It’s a spiritual law: “If anyone wants to do His will, he will know.”
God’s will is not hidden from the obedient. It’s hidden from the stubborn. Light is only given to those who say, “Whatever You show me, I’ll follow.”
So before you go hunting for answers, ask yourself one more time: Do I want to know what’s right, or do I just want to be told I’m already right?
If you want to know, you will.
When Scripture Says It Straight
We aren’t wandering in a fog. We’ve been given a Book. And that Book speaks clearly.
“Do not lie.”
“Do not steal.”
“Do not commit adultery.”
Right is still right. And just because we’re saved by grace doesn’t mean the commandments went mute. Christ fulfilled them, yes. But He never reversed them. He took their penalty, not their meaning.
You don’t need to ask if you’re allowed to lie. Or if cheating on your taxes is okay if the government wastes money. The Ten Commandments aren’t old-fashioned—they’re eternal.
The Bible is a sword. Not a suggestion box.
When the Bible Doesn't Name It
But what about the questions it doesn’t name?
Is it okay to watch that show? To drink that drink? To hang out there, say this, laugh at that?
These are the gray places. The foggy intersections. The unlisted situations.
But God hasn’t left us rudderless. He gave us something better than rules for every scenario. He gave us principles that pierce the heart.
So we ask five questions. And if you ask them honestly, they will take the gray and split it open like morning.