Broken Compass

Pro 8:36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul…


If we truly believe that we WRONG our own souls when we sin against God, why do we find it so incredibly easy to sin and so awfully hard not to? Do we care about wronging our souls? We need to, we really need to.


The trouble is, with sin so accepted we don't comprehend the wrong we are doing to ourselves or others. With the love of many waxing so very cold, sin has lost all it's horror. We call it being enlightened when we say we are not taken in by that old, out-dated, dinosaur concept of sin. We know better now. We have evolved. We no longer have to believe in something so silly. Sure we might believe in right and wrong, everyone knows that it's wrong to do certain things, but all those other things that people used to call sins, well they're old wives tales, middle ages stuff. It's all that religious stuff that made our ancestors act crazy and kill people. Yeah, religion has killed more people than anything else in the world- they should all be outlawed. Why, just today when reading comments on the Norway bombing one commentator said something along those same lines- religion is the cause of all the terrorists acts. People believe all this! People support all this! A whole generation of people are being brought up that it's wrong to speak the name of Jesus, in fact they can get in trouble it they bring up Jesus in school. They're also being taught it is wrong to be prejudice against others religions. Do you see? They are being told not to be bold about their own religion but to be accepting other religions. In fact they are told they have to be tolerant to religions that promote the doing away with their own religion. I'd have NO problem with that if it were being taught as 'loving your neighbor, turn the other cheek', but that's not the case here. They are being indoctrinated to believe there is something really wrong with their religion, but not the others.


Back to sin…


I read a very good book that clarified really nicely about the moral concepts we have of right and wrong, how they had to be formed from something- not just happenstance. How all over the world every society has the same concept of general right and wrong. The book is called 'Mere Christianity' by C.S. Lewis and is definitely worth the read.


It is true that this moral compass exists for the majority of people yet people make up lots of excuses to bend that moral compass to point more in the direction they want it to go in than the direction it would point if left alone, if left not tampered with. That moral compass has been skewed so badly that in our society today if you believe in God's ten commandments- yes, all ten of them; and if you believe it is a sin to break those ten commandments- then you're one demented person, with a few screws loose, and you ought to be dealt with delicately, tip toeing around your crazy self. Seriously, hold up God's ten commandments as your standard and people will nod and smile, they're good in theory but impossible for people to keep. They're okay and all, you know they like the one about not stealing, and not killing, but hey people have to lie, and they have to covet it's just plain natural, so is not honoring your parents- sheesh didn't they have awful parents back when God gave those commandments? Not all parents deserve to be honored that is for sure, so take out all those pointless commandments as being sin and worthy of death, and while you're at it take out those pesky commandments about having just one God and all that too- people today know better. It's okay that there are several gods as long as people get along and don't try to kill each other. And hey, that sabbath thing- it's kinda nice to have a day off work, but you do what you gotta do and work when you have to especially nowadays with work so scarce. There, that about sums up the normal take on the ten commandments, nice guidelines but not really that important, God won't reject someone because they see things differently than He does. Of course that's all assuming the people believe in God at all. It's just downright stupid to hold on to a faith that has no substance, childish and silly.


Today's moral compass is definitely broken, not just bent, it's broken and it's only going to get worse.


Sin.


Pro 8:36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul…


Joh 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Joh 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Joh 3:21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.


Our deeds.


We have a raised standard.
We have a Savior who died because He knew we could never save ourselves.
We have the Love of God in sending His Son to save us.
We have His word, His wisdom and if we sin against our God, against the wisdom He wants us to have then we are condemning ourselves, we are wronging our own souls.
We have to know that sin exists and that we need a pardon for that sin.
We have to recognize the sin that exists around us- the candy-coated sins, polished up nice 'n shiny to make them more acceptable- we have to recognize the sin and if we find the sin in our lives we need to throw ourselves at the feet of our Savior and beg His forgiveness.


By the grace of God may we NOT sin against Him! May we realize, really realize that we condemn ourselves when we sin and even a fool should know that condemning yourself, hurting yourself, is not right in any way, shape, or form. And I already know that many people do hurt themselves and strangely enough find solace in doing so- this world is so corrupt- that compass is so incredibly broken we have to cling tightly to our Savior as He leads us to Him as the entire world follows the broken compass.


In His amazing LOVE!

By His grace and mercy!

Only through HIS righteousness!


Amen.