Back to: The Lampstand (A Study of Righteous Living)
In The World Right Now There Is:
- A girl in India living in a tree- An orphan because parents were killed by floods.
- A young boy who is being abused by his relative and is too scared to speak about because of shame.
- A teenage wealthy girl who is left alone due to her parents always travelling for work and resorts to finding love in older men.
- A young boy who is being abused by his relative and is too scared to speak about because of shame.
- A mother who woke up to her malnourished dead baby because there is a lack of food to feed her household.
- A group of people who have to pray in bunkers and talk about God in secret because they could be killed for their faith.
- A man who has to work hard hours and labor just so he can feed his family.
- A child born with a fatal disease and there is nothing the doctors can do to save him.
Why Do We Need A Moral Compass
In this progressive culture, people believe that morality changes from age to age and culture to culture. Society decides what is right and wrong. Under this reasoning, sin depends on the circumstances of the moment. Through the media and entertainment, the world promotes quite a different level of moral acceptability than God’s standards, illustrating Proverbs 14:12: “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”
What happens to our sense of sin when God’s standards seem no longer to be valid? For an answer, all we need to do is take a look at our global society—its violence, sexual immorality, greed, stealing, and lying resulting in mass deaths, horrible diseases, rampant fraud, massive distrust, and misery. Why is it like this? “Where there is no revelation [divine vision], the people cast off restraint; but happy is he who keeps the law” (Proverbs 29:18). This is why the standard of right and wrong can only come from one who is perfect—our Creator, the Almighty God.
The apostle Paul writes in Romans 7:14 that God’s law is spiritual. The average person, however, considers laws as strictly physical guidelines that were invented to restrict him. But in the widest sense of the word, man’s relationship to God, affected by sin, is what constitutes guilt. Sin separates us from God (Isaiah 59:2), and guilt is the result of that separation.
We need principles & morals to help us make good choices. So the question is not why do bad things happen to good people but rather how can we make bad people make good choices!
