BLATANTLY UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOUR SUDDENLY BECOME MORALLY JUSTIFIABLE

Human being is a strange creature of all of God’s creation. We are supposed to be the most intelligent of all of God’s good earth BUT we can also be the most silly of all of creation.

We argue to prove and justify our sins. We appeal to emotions, to some “goodness” in our actions to justify our lack of reason for doing a wrong thing. We leave God out of the equation when we want to prove our choice is the right one, our fight is honourable, and our sinful practices is fine.

Recently i had an encounter with a woman who is having an affair with a married man. One of her reasons for getting into this relationship is the fact that the man have 4 grown children who are all in their thirties so it’s alright to have this adulterous relationship. The simple explanation is that because they are all grown ups they will not be affected by this sinful relationship. They are well able to handle it emotionally, and take care of themselves. What a reason!

The other reason is that the man is very good to her especially during the time after her own husband passed away. She was alone and lonely, and this man helped her, did a lot of things for her, and so it’s alright to have him come into her house to live with her. She even pride herself for not asking the man to leave his wife. In fact he praised the man for always running back to his wife and children to buy dinner for them. Oh wow…what a husband and a father. That makes it alright for her to have the relationship.

Another classic example of a morality based on this: the end justifies the means. He is good to me at the point of my need so it’s okay for me to live in with him even if he’s a married man. Human being, given what they lust after, what they desire selfishly, will give all kinds of reasons - will even fight tooth and nail with anyone who objected to the relationship.

I remembered someone one shared with me this illustration:

Child : But Mum, it’s only a white lie!

Mother : But Son, God is coloured blind!

A sin is a sin. There is no sin that is harmless! Our personal worldview will at the end forces us to make a decision based on it. Just like this woman in the story her first statement to me was that as far as she’s concerned life is NOT black and white meaning it’s grey - hard to discern, difficult to decide what is right or wrong. With this kind of view of life no wonder she was able to live in sin with a “pure conscience” as she claimed in front of me.