In the United States
and many parts of the world, it is considered prudish to have less than seven
sexual partners. No longer is
promiscuity considered morally wrong, at least as it pertains to a standard
derived from something less than the Bible.
There are other areas of behavior that are morally repugnant to a large
portion of the population that would be odd concerns to any era but our
own. Feelings of guilt have not left us;
they simply have become attached to new morality tenets that have surfaced in
our time. Would a couple ever before
have felt guilty about having another child yet now many do! Has there ever been an age where so much
angst has been suffered over the military strength of one's own nation? When did we start feeling guilty about
expressing faith in Christ? It is moral
to send naked pictures of oneself by text but immoral to pass those naked
pictures along to others. There is a
moral code to our world and it shifts about like seismic fissures. The natural course is to make morality match
one's behavior rather than the other way around. In a social order that decides it is moral,
what need is there for a God who dies for one's sins? A god who powers success might be interesting
or a deity that settles emotional instability could garner a following but a
true Savior who wrecks ones inner world by becoming Lord is anathema to moral self-determinists. Satan does not want a guilty sinner and does
his best to keep the fretting over right and wrong from the soul. But once a man or woman faces the mirror of
God's own justice and gains a fresh insight into what really is right and
wrong, the sham is uncovered and the healthy guilt of the Holy Spirit descends. We try so hard to be done with guilt but
guilt is a window through which the light of God shines into the heart and
reveals the true need of every soul, the need for Christ to bring salvation to
the totality of life.
When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:
John 16:8 NIV
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