Values Clarification

"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil. Who put darkness for light and light for darkness. Who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." Isaiah 5:20

I could write a book about this. What an indictment from God. Oh how we have fallen in this trap again and again since the garden. Satan tempted humans from the beginning to question God’s Word, His values, and His motives for setting boundaries. Today, we suffer from a rash of twisted justification and redefinitions. As innocent hip jargon meanings such as: “sick”, “outrageous,” and “bitchin”, to the totally misleading wonderful terms such as “pro-choice”, “universal health care”, and “mercy killing” for example, it’s no wonder we are confused, bewildered, and unclear about so many things.

Language has become a game of semantics and somewhere, somehow, we have lost our compass and sense of direction. Everything is couched so carefully or so politically correct that it is hard to tell right from wrong or good from evil, or light from dark, or bitter from sweet. So, everything is kinda bittersweet, shady and two-faced, or full of double and even triple entendre. Excuse my obvious frustration here but seems to me that God wants to separate good and evil, light and dark and sweet and bitter. Our lines are blurry and the grey is wider than the black and white put together.

I remember when “values clarification” was introduced, and not for the purpose of clarifying anything, for the purpose of “openness”, “tolerance” and questioning Judeo-Christian values. We are heading farther and farther away from the garden and into a desert. Wrong is not right! Right is not wrong. Who gets to decide? God does. We don’t allow Bibles in public schools and hand them out like candy in prison. I think better sooner than later. Enough of my soapbox today.

Read the harder parts of your Bible, they are there for a reason. It is not like we haven’t been warned, God help us. The truth is being thwarted and the liar is on the loose.

Mercy,
Pastor Fred

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