A Moral Dilemma

The moral dilemma was clear.  Longstanding moral standards in Israel had been destroyed not through an outside force but from within.  They had simply redefined sin!  After all, God’s Word on it was not good enough.  They were living in a new age.  So, they were wise in their own eyes and shrewd in their own sight!  NOW it was not sin any longer because they had decided as a society to change the definitions.  Isaiah’s comment on that generation was, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”  (Isaiah 5:20) 

That same affliction has gripped the world in these last days.  No longer tolerating God’s standard for morality, sin has been redefined, evil has been changed and good has been decried as immorality.  Who would have thought that the taking of the life of a baby is seen as only a choice to be made by a woman and doctor no matter the stage of pregnancy or even after the child has been born.  To cry out against this immoral taking of innocent lives, one is called bigoted and unloving.  At the same time, if someone in cruelty takes the life of a puppy, even one not born, they are charged and seen as evil and wrong.  Somehow the two do not seem to equate.

I read this week of the new man who is running for president in America.  I watched as he spoke, kissed his male partner he is married to and then went on to blame God for creating him one devoted to that lifestyle.  To speak out against this sin of homosexuality, as does the Bible today makes one unloving, homophobic, bigoted, and one commentator said it, “immoral.”  So now the murderer, adulterer, sodomite, and all other sinners can blame God for what used to be called sin.  Now, they have redefined it.  Evil is no longer evil, sin is no longer sin, and apparently for these, God is no longer God who has a right as Creator to tell man what is moral and immoral.  Now that has role has been taken over by man.

These last days are strange days.  But God told us about the evil times that were coming upon the earth prior to His return (2 Timothy 3).  They will be days in which men will not tolerate sound teaching but rather heap to themselves religious leaders who will tickle their ears while going along with their sinful folly (2 Timothy4).  Those days have arrived!  Just where are you going to stand?  With God and His Word or the world and its folly?