Ideas Have Consequences
Some attitudes and actions are evil from a religious or moral perspective; illegal from a legal or constitutional perspective, and foolish from a political perspective. However, our social order has become so secular having driven out the sacred, that truth and that which is right or wrong in any clear and absolute form is hard to find and when you do find it, it morphs right before your eyes.
The new market economy has replaced the old moral economy and ever changing moral values have replaced honorable virtue with the result that hate has become malignant and metastasized to other parts of life. (Consider the plight of the newborn and the unborn under the progressive and liberal view of humanity.)
The reason is found in understanding the connection of a philosophical framework and the sociological result. Make no mistake, a person or a country's philosophical attitude leads to sociological pragmatic actions. In America, the philosophical belief in Atheism (no god) leads to a sociology and morality based on pragmatism (whatever works). The increase in the number of people who self-identify in surveys with the descriptor of "None" in regard to their religious affiliation over the past 5 years is revealing. It manifests a change in basic philosophical commitments that have a corresponding sociological consequence.
What shall we then do? Sit... Soak... or Sour?
I propose we:
Pray - "Lord, help me to live godly in a godless world. Jesus, lead me by your Holy
Spirit to be in fellowship with you this day and every day until that day you
come to deliver your church."
Plan - "I will make a plan and prepare myself through prayer and the study of the word of God, not to be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of my mind. I will let my mind dwell on that which is good, acceptable and lovely. I will take every thought captive to Christ."
Perform - "I will implement my plan to engage my world and evaluate each night with
the Lord as to how I have invested the day for Him."
You can't go back and change the beginning
but you can start where you are and change the ending.
-C.S. Lewis -
Serving Him with you
Until He comes for us,
Fred