To continue with yesterday's post, I will stay on the topic of sin. Is it just me or do we as Christians seem to skew the lines between right and wrong more than even the world does? If we think about it, the pagan world doesn't really try to decipher between right and wrong except on their own personal moral level. Christians know the difference yet we try to force wrong things to be right. I don't think God could possibly take that well.
We tend to say "as long as we are in the context of a relationship, it's okay if we have premarital sex." Well, no it's not. Or we say "getting drunk is fine as long as we don't do it every weekend." Once again, we have stretched the boundaries in order to do what we want. The question I pose is: do you not think this has been happening for a while now? I mean, I can't help but think that every generation since Jesus has made a few things a little more acceptable. We didn't just get here over night. However now you can walk up to a random mix of people in an airport and ask them to share their story and most of them will include their so-called "relationship" with their god, whether they be Buddhist, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish, or any other religion someone has thought up by now, yet in their every day lives they look just like we do in our Christian lives. We are called to be a peculiar people, and if that means we have to lay some pleasure-filled things aside, so be it. We don't get out of our rut and back in our passionate relationship with God without deciding to first. Deciding to live a life of righteousness is the first step. Now we have to do it.
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This is definitely not a new thing. I laugh at us "Christians" because we say we are free to live how ever we want and yet there is a moral obligation to be holy becuase we are children of our Father in Heaven which means we bear His name. If you talk to non-christians they often seem less concerned about the rules and seem to have a life care free and we see them and are jealous. As Christians we must realize that we have chosen to engage ourselves in a constant never ending battle against what we want and what God wants....if you don't want to fight get off the team.
ReplyDeleteGalatians 5:16-18 - "So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won't be doing what your sinful nature craves. The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions."
The battle will be long and hard... but so worth it. Like I said. Anyone who calls himself or herself a Christian and does not want to fight... stop making the rest of us look like whimps and get off the team.