We Couldn't Be Wrong, Right?

Acts 5:25-28
Then came one and told them, saying, Behold the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people. Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned. And when they had brought them, they set them before the counsel: and the high priest asked hem, saying, Did not we straightly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and behold ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.
In these verses we see several truths. One is the fact that the church leaders, the Sanhedrin, were wrong and they knew it. Their pride and arrogance had blinded them to the truth Jesus brought. Two they showed their self righteousness thinking they were better than anyone else and only they could teach religious ideas. Three because they knew they were wrong they were afraid of what the people would say or do.
I am quite sure neither the Sanhedrin nor the chief priest, felt they were opposed to God in this confrontation with Peter and John. Rather, they were so focused on their own power and authority they could not see God's correcting hand in the experience. We see this indignation in verse 28, "We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name." In other words their egos blinded them to the truth God was trying to show them. Remember these were men who all their lives had studied the law and prophets, the religious of the religious.

So often we get locked into doing things our way (like the Sanhedrin), that when God corrects us through events, we ignore the miracle because it doesn't fit with our expectation. We couldn't be wrong -- right? When things seem to be going wrong -- people aren't following your direction, leadership or example -- it's probably a good time to reevaluate how and what you're doing. God might be correcting you and He may be using a lowly person or people to do so. I think the most difficult correction for me to accept is, when God uses someone less educated, less experienced, or a new Christian. That's when I have to be especially careful that my "Sanhedrin" indignation and arrogance doesn't kick in.
Is God trying to correct you right now? Is there a way you are doing something, maybe even an attitude that needs to change? Do you get hung up on tradition and ritual and miss the real truth god is trying to show you? Has there been someone in your life that like the Sanhedrin has made you angry because they've challenged you? Perhaps it's time to reevaluate -- you couldn't be wrong, right?

Evaluate your attitudes and actions in light of God's Word. For only then can you truly see the flaws that may be keeping your from having a truly great experience with God.