March 19, 2021

                    How Does a Moral Man Live in an Immoral Society? 

This is a question that involves ethics but also morality. Ethics is the process and procedure by which we make moral principles and decisions. This is a question that is becoming more relevant every day in America. We are seeing immorality institutionalized through executive orders and congressional legislation. And where it stops nobody knows.

The Lord has declared many ethical and moral standards and systems. In the Old Testament, we think of Moses and the Decalogue called the Ten Commandments. (Exodus 20) In the New Testament, we might think of Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount. (Matthew 5-7) Both the Old and New Testament are replete with righteous paradigms for people living in unrighteous times. But one of the shortest and yet most comprehensive is expressed in Micah 6:8: “He has told you, O man, what is good; and what the Lord requires of you; to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.”

  • How do you do justice? By deepening your Competence in the Word. The only way to do justice is to know truth and the only way to know the truth is to know the Word of God. (Psalm 119; 2 Tim. 3:16; John 17:17). Then we are to live it out.

  • How do you love mercy? By developing your Compassion for the World. (John 13:34-35; I John 4:7)

  • How do you walk humbly before God? By living out your Commitment to the Way of the Lord.

As we live out our life we need to develop priorities, principles, and patterns by which we: believe the Word of God, behave according to the way of God, and belong with the people of God.

This will require us to demand the time to think and develop the habit of thought.

Serving Him with you
until He comes for us,
Fred