We decide such challenges by our beliefs and worldview 

It involves something like, “Not just where you get to, but how you get there.” Also, “Not just what you get, but how you get it.” It includes ethics and morality. Can there be morally wrong actions, for morally right outcomes?

It’s an interesting old saying, apparently famously used by Machiavelli.

This has led to the expression of a ‘Machiavellian personality’, where a person uses whatever compromised ‘means’ to get to their desired ‘end’ or goal. At that end of the spectrum, it used to be thought of as a negative character trait, but maybe not nowadays. Hence the topic!

Knowingly, or not, this seems to be used more and more these days for justifying a hard push to get what is wanted. Maybe that’s related to more people having the worldview of an atheist, or a secularist, a none, or an agnostic? 

Wanting, above all, to please the pure and holy God of the Bible

I have to say that since I want to please the God of the Bible, I should be sure to only use methods pleasing to him to get what I want. That end should also be something that is in line with what is pleasing to him.

Call me out as a hypocrite if needed, or at least let us talk about it…