NEEDING to be right…is WRONG!

I used to approach most of my life with the intention of proving myself right.

Some, would say I still do.

It has led to a lot of failed experiments that continue to have lasting effects upon me emotionally, and therefore physically.

Only when I have been willing to admit my wrongness did I experience freedom, growth, change, peace and rightness; however, my pursuit of rightness or truth is different than needing to be right to the point that we refrain from discovering the truth in order to maintain the status quo.  In our culture we have equated our worth with our answers or understandings, but our value goes far beyond them.

It’s why the Holy Spirit is such a great gift to us. He doesn’t lead us into rightness, but truth (John 16:13), and often the truth only exposes how wrong we are.

Needing to be right is wrong, but needing the truth is essential to being human. Kathryn Shultz explores in detail our culture’s obsession with rightness and how being wrong can actually be the best place to be.

When was a time that you fought to be right when you were actually wrong? What did the fight cost you? Teach you? How did you, if you did, finally admit that you were wrong?

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