“If you sow unrighteousness you will reap unrighteousness.” I want us all to think about something. Should we really be surprised at the recent events our nation has been experiencing? Look at our nation. Look at how we have been eating away at our individual/national conscience. We flood our hearts and minds with music that is filled with violence, immorality, and etc that eats away at our conscience. The entertainment we watch on TV consist of brash behavior, immorality, profanity, and violence that eats away at our conscience. Many of us attend/or have attended educational institutions that teach against the existence of God; therefore, implying that man is the ultimate authority. Even our video games promote violence and immorality.
Look at the political arena. We legislate murder in killing unborn babies. We legislate homosexual marriage. We endorse and celebrate transgender practices. With all of this transpiring in our culture, begin to reflect on how all of this begins to erode our individual conscience. Then think how this erodes our national moral conscience.
Not only do we intentionally erode our conscience by drinking down these things, we intentionally remove God out of the public square and begin to create “our own” relative morality.
So should we be surprised at this behavior? No, we should not. We have subtly moved away from sound morals hinged on conscience and have drifted into a rebellious society that is bent on destroying itself. We have begun a love affair with unrighteousness that is coming full circle with hate and murder. We have two choices: 1. Acknowledge our sin, guilt, and unrighteousness in our hearts and turn to the Lord and His righteousness. Or 2. Reject righteousness and continue on this pattern until the immorality, hate, and anger destroys us. If we choose not to destroy our sin, our sin will destroy us. I’ll leave you with the words of the prophet Isaiah,
“When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.”
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” (Isaiah 1:15-20)
