WHO DEFINES MORALITY?

Who defines morality?  Who decides what is right and what is wrong?  The president’s endorsement of gay marriage may be one social hot potato whose morality is debated by people on both sides of the issue, but the issue of gay marriage is just another manifestation of a culture that has been pushing the God who created us and redeemed us from the center of life and society to the margins.  What He has to say in the Bible seems to be irrelevant to the majority of people in America.  What is taking its place are phrases like, “It seems to me… or…The way I see it is…”  We adopt our own sense of understanding and fairness.  The issue really isn’t gay marriage.  The real issue goes back to President Obama’s comment that America is no longer a Christian nation.  To me that was as much an observation as a pronouncement.  Our nation’s separation from the God of the Bible as the starting place for morality, life decisions and legislation, has led to a descent into relativism, pluralism and tolerance which makes the lines of defined morality, fuzzier and fuzzier.  As God becomes just a word rather than a reality to whom we are accountable, and our own understanding rather than God’s revelation guides our sense of morality, we will continue to see increasing moral confusion and decline.  Until people are willing to acknowledge that the God who made us is God of all people and nations, and holds each accountable for their decisions and practices, we can fight the skirmishes of social issues, but we’ll lose the bigger battle.  We need a God sent revival that convicts the heart of man and returns them to their God and His Word.  That is what we need to be praying for.

Yes, we still need to stand strong on the truth that defines these moral issues, but we need to go beyond them to the heart of the problem, namely, man’s need to repent and return to God.