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The Missing Angle

           Over the past few months the sports world has been filled with stories of scandal and outrage.  An owners racist comments leaked out to the world.  A hidden video showing a player assaulting his girlfriend.  The indictment of a star for abusing his children.  Student athletes accused of several crimes that are seemingly swept under the rug.  These stories are not only dominating the sports section but also front page as well.

          The stories, in what is typical for our modern news have been viewed and reviewed ad nauseam.  In all that reporting however I noticed one angle that never seems to be discussed much.  The owner whose racist statements were leaked by his mistress, no one made much of an issue of him having a relationship with a woman that was not his wife.  No one mentions that the couple living together outside of wedlock had been drinking.  The player that is accused of abusing his children has several (it seems he not that sure how many) children with several different women, none of whom he is married to.  The drinking, the carousing, the promiscuity, the sensuality are all glossed over and forgotten about.  No one thinks the moral angle has anything to do with what has happened.

Let me tell you something our modern media may miss but it true nonetheless, when we lose our morality, it will lead to more terrible things.  The world want to accept the use of alcohol but then cringes at the violence and poor decisions it causes.  It tolerates promiscuity, then bemoan the lack of respect show to opposite sex.  It decry a father’s harsh treatment to his children but miss the fact that being an absentee father may be doing something just as harmful to that child’s well-being.  How did we get to this place in society?  Could it just as simple as we abandoned the morals that the Bible as given us?

          In Colossians 3:5-6 we read,
“Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.  For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience”.
 The reason God is such a stickler about moral behavior isn’t because he some sort of cosmic killjoy but because he can see how things operate a lot better than we do!  He knows were sin leads.  He can see the pain, loss, and degradation that follows in sins wake. A loving God love us enough to tell us to stay away from it before it kills us.


          The moral angle is one we need to consider not just in the news cycle but it our lives as well.  If we really think about the problems we face in our live, chances are there is sin behind every one of them.  Being moral isn’t about taking the high road but taking the only road that leads to a better life!
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