Moral Compass
1 Corinthians 5:1 “It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife” NKJV
Life Lesson: If you are a follower of Jesus, then your moral absolute compass is the Bible.
Jeff Foxworthy once quipped, “You might be a redneck if…your state’s got a new law that says ‘when a couple gets divorced, they are still legally brother and sister.’”
According to 1 Corinthians 5, if someone is introducing their momma and their girlfriend to you and there is only one lady standing there…yeah…there’s a problem.
Hopefully, you have never come across that but more and more all you have to do is glance at the front page of the local daily to see just how disoriented and off-course humanity has become. Some people try to convince themselves that they ultimately cannot know right and wrong. That, my friend, is false. Even children know the difference between right and wrong. After a while, repetitive sin and sinful thoughts become adoptive behavior, and the heartache from willful sin begins to wane. Sin is still sin. We need to recognize that there are moral absolutes.
We shouldn’t expect someone, who does not know the Lord, to abide in the moral absolutes of the Bible. But Christians have no excuse. We know what is right, and when we are confused, we have God’s instructions of what we should do. Something as simple as a compass will lead a whole fleet of ships to their destination. The Bible is the Christian’s moral compass. When the Bible tells us not to do something, it is because God loves us enough to tell us what will hurt us. He will instruct us the right way to go. I love my own kids, teach them to do right and discipline them when they disobey. How much more so our Father in Heaven who loves us? No matter how much I love and discipline my children, they still have to make the decision to be obedient.
So, how would you finish this sentence, “You might be a child of God if …?”
Dear Father,
Thank You for loving me. Thank You for inviting me to come to you. Lord, through Your Word, You warn me of what is right and wrong. I desire to respond to You. Because of Your mercy, love and grace, I can give You my broken dreams and struggles. Thank You for accepting me where I am, but not leaving me there. Lord, help me to live in the fullness of my new nature. I want to be kingdom- builder and a world-changer. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Living to tell what He died to say,
Pastor David McGee
Senior Pastor
Calvary Chapel of the Triad
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2 Responses to “Moral Compass”
January 24th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
A friend in work tried to argue that there is no such thing as absolute truth. He said that truth is what each person perceives it to be. He was convinced of this after a discussion he had with some friends of his at a party. Unfortunately, this is what people believe now. It is up to us to convince people that there is an absolute truth and that we can view the same event in different ways but it doesn’t mean that the event actually happened the way it was perceived. I thank God that we do have a moral compass and guidelines that we can go by to keep us from falling for untruths and blurring the lines of right and wrong. It makes watching the news an exercise in discernment. When I find myself wondering I go back to God’s Word and things get clear.
January 24th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
Thank you for such a REAL message! It is such a blessing to sit under teaching that is line by line – verse by verse. There is not skipping around. You could sit in most churches that teach topicals and never her a message like the one that correlates with this devtional.
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