“…every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” When you have no moral authority, this is always the result. Man becomes a god unto himself, making the rules for his conduct anyway his depraved mind deems best for his satisfying the flesh. Man’s moral code invariably ends in justifying lying, fornication, hatred, envy, drunkenness, and all uncleanness. It’s referred to as “The New Morality,” and its chief promoter is “The New Age” movement. Actually, it’s as old as the devil. He makes this morality acceptable by tagging new names to old sins. When men go by their own moral compass, they end up going in different directions, none of which lead to God.
C.S. Lewis writes, “The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as a thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide.” He goes on to remind us that “moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.”
God’s Commandments are concrete. Grace doesn’t obliterate the Law; it’s the icing on the cake. The great Grace preacher, Paul, mentions believers adhering to every one of the Ten Commandments, with the exception of observing the Sabbath. When man leaves God’s moral code, he sets up his own civilized morality, which ultimately turns into savage morality. Today’s Christianity has an anything goes philosophy. Animals have no moral code of conduct either.
Therefore, let us endeavor to keep His Commandments, for as John tells us, they are not grievous. Again, sighting the insightful Lewis, “One of the worst things about a moral relapse—to me—is that it throws such a shadow back on the time before during which you thought you were getting on quite well. Having found oneself—for the hundredth time—back where one started, it seems obvious that one has never really moved at all: and what seemed progress was only a dream, or even the irrelevant result of circumstances or physical condition.”
“The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.” C.S. Lewis
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