An eternal consequence

There is an eternal consequence to our opinions and actions.  Right is not right because you or I or even God decided to make it so.  God doesn’t decide what is right, he is right.  That is a hard concept for us as humans.  We have dishonest and opinionated leaders and judges who declare a thing to be right whether it is or not.  Therefore, logic would say God could change his mind about what is right.  But that is fallen thinking. 

You have a mortal enemy that delights in the evolution of thought that creates a changeable, human God.  Jesus said to the leaders of his day “You do not tell the truth.  If I were to agree with you, I would become a liar.  If I said God agrees with you I would be making him out to be a liar.  If you knew God you would understand.”  But he was speaking to people who were used to making their own twist on the rules and they just got mad.

We listen to bad logic that feels good and we say “Yeah!” without ever considering the road we are embarking on at that point.  I have made irrevocable mistakes that made me want a logic that allowed it to be less than wrong if it could not be right.  Sometimes we are led, sometimes we are forced, sometimes we are deceived, but we all fall short of the ‘rightness’ that we were created for.

That is the reason God allowed his dearest son, his companion in creation, a very part of himself, who put his power aside for obedience sake, to suffer persecution, rejection and a cruel unjust death.  It was to redeem us, to forgive us, and to make us right with God when there was no other way that would satisfy truth, love and justice.  I cannot call on God to change the ‘rules’ for me.  But I can call on his grace to forgive and redeem.

Daily I find myself bombarded with good arguments that try to change the voice of right thinking and living.  One by one we reject the sinfulness of acts and attitudes.  But if sin is not sin and wrong is not wrong, then Jesus died an unnecessary death after living an exemplary life and God would be found faulty.  Sadly that is the conclusion of so many people who have espoused sin as an optional way of living.  Forgiveness is mute.  Redemption is unneeded and God becomes less than worthy of devotion and praise.

In the end God is right.  God is just.  God is love.  God is merciful.  His eternal attributes found a way to bring us to himself without breaking the strength of any or those.  The decision was to offer his son.  I will not water down amazing grace to espouse your or my sin.  Jesus offers forgiveness and redemption.  That is enough.