July 25, 2015

"There is a way that appears to be right but in the end it leads to death." Proverbs 16:25

"In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes." Judges 21:25

If it was easy to do the right thing everyone would be doing it.

These verses emphasize the importance of understanding what is right and what is wrong.

If you do what seems right to you, you will do wrong every time because your moral compass is corrupted.

When you have everyone doing what is right in his own eyes you have chaos and chaos can easily degenerate into anarchy.

That is pretty much how it was in the days of Noah before God destroyed the evil doers with the flood.

We are perilously close to that today.

What can we do to turn the tide?

The answers are found in I Corinthians 13:4-8, the Scripture we have been studying this summer.

We need to live in the love of Jesus and love people to life.

“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.” I Corinthians 13:6

It’s quite clear. If you don’t have the love of God operating in your life, you will delight in evil and find it a struggle to do what it right.

Let’s face it we live in a culture that DOES delight in evil. In fact, it glorifies evil and ridicules what is right and good. This explains how an abortion doctor can casually much on a salad and swill wine while she explains how she can kill an innocent child in the womb in such a way as to preserve its organs to be sold. And then people in their movement actually try to defend these actions.

But since we are honoring truth it is important to recognize evil dwells in our hearts and if we do not allow the Holy Spirit to deal with it and fill us with His power and purity, we will also delight in evil.