“Common sense” refers to sound and prudent judgment based on a simple perception of the situation or facts. It represents the basic level of practical wisdom that any adult human being ought to possess. Essentially, it's the ability to make good judgments and behave in a practical and sensible way. So, when faced with decisions, common sense guides us toward sensible choices.
No one can dispute the need for making good decisions, but if we're not careful, “common sense” can actually be a great detriment to our being useful to Christ and His kingdom. Proverbs 14:12 reminds us: “There is a way which seems right to a person, but its end is the way of death.” Jeremiah 17:9 goes even further: “The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; Who can understand it?” God shows us the meaninglessness of following our own devices...our own “common sense. Here's a Truth Matters news flash--- common sense will never lead you to God...ever.

Listen to what Oswald Chambers points out in today's My Utmost for His Highest:

“Never let common sense break in and push the Son of God to the side. Common sense is a gift that God gave human nature, but the gift that comes from His Son is supernatural sense. Common sense has never once detected the Father, and never will. Don't enthrone common sense.

Our ordinary wits never worship God unless they are transformed by His indwelling Son. We have to keep our mortal flesh in perfect subjection to Him, letting Him work through us moment by moment. Are we living in such dependence on Jesus Christ that His life is being manifested in us?”

This morning I was listening to a testimony from comedian Ray Allen. He was a belligerent, atheistic, "common sense" guy looking for any way to make money, enjoy life, and attain fame. His “common sense” drove him close to bankruptcy, losing his wife and family, and thoughts of suicide. A Christian friend gave him some tapes from a Bible teaching pastor on Ecclesiastes 1:1-3 and the passage ultimately led him to Christ: “The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.2 “Futility of futilities,” says the Preacher, “Futility of futilities! All is futility.” 3 What advantage does a person have in all his work which he does under the sun? Where does “vanity” come from? Always from our “common sense.” Let's be careful to develop a “sense” that comes from a deepening relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ.

Here's my prayer for you and me today: It's from The Message Paraphrase rendering of Romans 12:1-2 -_So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what He wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.” Lord...this is the “sense” we want. Draw us close. Amen.

Walk with the King today and be a blessing.