There is so much confusion in the world. These days, most people don’t seem to have a grasp on what is right and what is wrong. In the past, it was easy to distinguish between the two. People looked to the Bible to give them their moral compass. It was the map and guide to living a life for God.
Still, without knowing Jesus, the Bible may seem to be a set of rules without any understanding of how the rules were made and why we have to live by them.
In truth, the rules were given to us to show us how far we had fallen from the perfection that God had given to mankind when he created Adam and Eve. When they sinned, they lost it and had no way to get it back again.
The Bible and its rules are meant to show us that, on our own, we can never be good enough to be able to approach God. We will always sin and God cannot allow sin in his presence. He is good, sinless, holy and awesome. We are the opposite.
The way of life that the Bible gives to us is still what we should strive to do. Once we have accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we should turn from our sin-filled life and live the way that Jesus did.
He was the only individual who could actually live by the rules of the Bible. He was both God and man at the same time. He could have sinned, Satan did his best to tempt him and to convince him to rebel against God the father.
Jesus withstood temptation by relying on the word of God, which is written in the Bible. To every temptation that Satan sent his way, he responded by telling what the Bible had to say about it. He would not back down, he would not sin.
We, who are born-again Christians, do try to live his way. Still, we are sinners, and so we will not be able to live sinlessly in this lifetime. When we sin, which for me, is probably every day, we are to repent and ask forgiveness and ask God to help us to stop us from committing that sin.
He is always ready to forgive and to help us. All we have to do is come to him with a true spirit of repentance and a sincere desire to stop sinning.
The rest of the world doesn’t understand this and so, they think the Bible is archaic and no longer relevant. They have begun to think that they can create their own moral code.
Of course, one person’s code is not the same as another, so what is good for one is not good for all. Likewise, what is evil in one individual’s eyes is not evil in another person’s view.
That is a recipe for disaster. It creates disharmony and worse. It gives people the freedom to attack one another. Not only verbally but physically as well. They are sometimes, and increasingly so, ready to kill one another over these areas of disagreement.
From what I’ve seen, when placed against the word of God, the moral code of man is wrong. It doesn’t matter which individual it is, they can never understand the perfection of God. They may think they have come close but they are still wrong.
We are a world that is broken. Everything, except for God, is in a state of decay. Everything we think is wisdom apart from God, is foolishness in the eyes of God. All of our knowledge is flawed. There is not one of us who understands what God understands. We see the present and think that the future will be based on what we do today. Except for one thing, that is completely incorrect. God has a plan and his plan is different from anything that mankind can dream up.
The one exception that is not foolishness, is accepting Jesus as your savior. He has given us a way to receive redemption. By living sinlessly and dying for us, he became a worthy sacrifice to take all of our sin to himself and to exchange his sinlessness in its place. He did this to give us a way to have a relationship with God.
He didn’t ask us to do anything else, just to accept his freely given gift. There is nothing good enough we can do to deserve it. It is completely undeserved. That is the astounding part of this gift. It was given when we were still sinners and God’s enemy.
How many people would willingly die for an enemy who was trying to kill you? Jesus would and did. He loves you that much that he died for you to save you from the consequences of your sin. All you have to do is accept it, knowing that Jesus is God and was raised from the dead, and start to live your life, with his help, in the way that he showed us.
Use his moral code and stop trying to create one of your own. Do not think of your own way or accept any other individuals code. Jesus’ way is better. His is the best. His is the only true way to live.
Colossians 2:8
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.