Hebrews 5:14 English Standard Version (ESV)But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

Judge this for yourselves, is good and evil the same as right and wrong?

Matthew 23:23 English Standard Version (ESV) Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

I do not mean to mince words but good and evil appears to be associated with the condition of the heart while right and wrong speaks to the choices we make.

Knowing what is good and what is evil does not mean we always know what to do about that discernment.

Jesus always made the right choices in what to do when He was confronted. Sometimes He remained silent, sometimes He called people out, sometimes He acted with mercy and sometimes with justice.

Jesus spent each night alone with the Father and the results of that communion appears in the scripture as doing the Father’s will because He knew what the Father expected.

When it comes to good and evil we may find that our humanity gets in the way of seeking God’s will for what to do about our discernment. Discernment in and of itself does not carry with it instructions.

Psalm 17:15 English Standard Version (ESV) As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.

Seeking God’s will means we have to come to Him without any unconfessed sins in our life.

Honor and respect comes first before discovering His will. Then we will get an opportunity to act as Jesus acted, faithfully.

Psalm 100:4 English Standard Version (ESV) Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!

Ecclesiastes 1:13 King James Version

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

Hebrews 5:14 King James Version

But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

The two exercises here are physical and spiritual.

Solomon describes his exercise as a sore travail. Those are physical sensations.

In Hebrews we discover coming to spiritual maturity in discernment, to judge good and evil.

We work in one world and worship in the other.

Which one influences us more than the other?

That is a personal question which can only be answered by each individual. There is no judgment here except to recognize both forces are at work in us all.

An old American Indian proverb says we have two wolves in us and which one is stronger is the one we feed the most. That is natural, not spiritual.

Hebrews 5:14 tells us “by reason of use” which is not a matter of being fed but rather in the use of the spiritual senses we have been given.

We know how to exercise our natural senses but how do we exercise our spiritual senses?

Habakkuk 2:4 King James Version

Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

The soul is not upright, it is sensual. Christ in us justifies us so that we can walk by faith.

Romans 3:26 King James Version

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.