Psalm 66:16-20 reminds us that God hears the prayers of genuine seekers: “Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will tell you what he did for me. For I cried out to him for help, praising him as I spoke. If I had not confessed the sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. But God did listen! He paid attention to my prayer. Praise God, who did not ignore my prayer or withdraw his unfailing love from me.”
I think we sometimes forget that “The LORD… takes the upright into His confidence” (Proverbs 3:32). It’s the contrite, genuine believer — the one who truly questions a behavior, indulgence, or activity — he/she will be led down the right path for such a person truly wants to know and do what’s right in the sight of Almighty God.
As cited in a previous devotion, F. B. Meyer speaks to this very subject: “Has the voice of God long been silent to thee — no fresh command, no deeper insight into truth? Separate thyself not only from what is clearly wrong but from all that is questionable and the Lord will speak to thee things it is not possible for a man to utter [express]… Whatever Abraham renounced, when he left his home or gave Lot the right to choose, he received back in the usual measure of God, with an overflowing overpass [in excess of what he actually needed]. God gave him the entire land, including Lot’s portion. We can never give up for God, without receiving in this life more than we gave.”