I’m a bit worried we
have gotten a little too obsessed with
Of course its wicked, it is the world. Do we really need to be told
that?
I understand we get concerned about these
kinds of things because we want our country to be better and are worried about the
future for our children. But we need to
remember the world has always been the home turf of the devil (1st
John 5:19) and will always be.
Wickedness will be around us no matter how hard we try to avoid it.
Consider what we
read in 1st Corinthians 5:9-13,:
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; I did
not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and
swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the
world. But actually, I wrote to you not
to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or
covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler--not even
to eat with such a one. For what have I
to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the
church? But those who are outside, God
judges
We know we are to
stay away from evil people and behavior, but as long as we are in this world,
we are going to have to wade through the muck it creates. God is going to deal
with the wicked world. Rather than focusing all my
attention on those that are outside, I would be much better off turning my
focus inward. When we look at the
crumbled ruins of the world, if makes our own nicked edges look like much less
of a concern. We are not however going
to be judged by the standard of the world but according to the standard of
God. So what if the world is evil, the
real question we need to be focused on is, “Am I more like them or more what God wants me to be”?
Cursing the darkness
doesn't do much good. What we need to be doing is turning on a light. That
light must come from ourselves (Matthew 5:14-16) in how we live different from
the world. I don’t care how bad the
world is; are we doing better?
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