When was the last time you were faced with a moral decision? Notice I didn't ask "have you ever been?" Anyone who has even an ounce of life experience has faced a choice between right and wrong. Back when I was in high school I was caught, along with four or five other individuals, throwing grapefruit at passing cars. To make things worse I was doing it from the second floor of a building at our church. Nothing says "Come to Church" more than a grapefruit landing on the hood of your car. This is an extreme example of the type of choices I am talking about, but I had to share!
When moral decisions present themselves they are usually in the form of:
-The coworker coming to you to rip on someone else hoping that you'll join in.
-Someone flirting with you, and you are married, or you know they are.
-Scamming the clock at work and leaving before you should, or claiming more time than you actually worked.
-Receiving and forwarding that funny email that may be funny, but is really inappropriate.
These are just a few examples we all face each and every day. There are many more I have obviously missed. Crazy though how our conscience drives us into the dark hoping that others will not see what we have done. If we hide it well enough not even God will see through our wrong and we can live life like nothing ever happened, right? Not so much! Then down the road after we have made so many bad decisions that we feel like we are constantly dodging bullets and carrying all of our issues from the last decade on our shoulders, we find ourselves bound by our past and not free to live for the future. Even the simplest of poor choices can seem insurmountable and numb you to what is right in time.
God has given us light in this dark world, yet so many chose to live in the dark. John 3:19-21 says, "This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God." Stop dwelling in the dark and walk into light. If something has such a grip on you that you feel you can't make the good choice, pray about it and take that stand. Everything starts somewhere, and just because you slip up from time to time doesn't mean God will not forgive you. You separate yourself from society by having the ability to say you were wrong and asking for forgiveness. The most important thing is to live for Him.
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