A Way That Seems Right

"There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Proverbs 16:25

How do you know what is right and wrong? In 1996 Bill Clinton signed the defense of marriage act. In 2008, Barack Obama defined marriage as "the union between a man and a woman." In 2012, the Supreme Court essentially decided gay marriage was the law of the land. This year, Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, couldn't define a woman because she wasn't a biologist.

We are told that we cannot look back on history as any reference to morality because we are progressing toward the future. After all, history is full of racist bigots whose morality is imposed upon us by the oppressive puritanical patriarchy and bourgeois sensibilities. Solomon wrote, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man." We all have our opinions of what is right and wrong. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama once believed it seemed right that marriage was between a man and a woman. What they once confessed was wrong, they now champion as right. What changed? What has happened in the last 40 years that has caused people to call good what they once called evil? Is morality nothing more than what the people are ok with at a particular time?

We sowed the wind and now are reaping the whirlwind. We have formed a society with many rules but no reason for them. We have morals built on sinking sand. There is no framework to say that any act is immoral other than our collective scruples, and how long will that stand?

Our God created us to know that certain things are right and wrong. It's not a coincidence that murder is and has always been wrong. There are objective moral standards outside of us. Yet, the emotions of the inner person of the correct political class are now our guiding principle. We have created a world where ethical standards are subjective and come from gnostic knowledge. It takes work to deny certain natural truths, such as the difference between a man and a woman. It's unnatural to form a construct that denies physical reality. But that's what we have done. We've made a world divorced from reality and truth and now must suffer the consequences.

When people give themselves over to a denial of God and basic categories of good and evil, the Lord gives those people over to a reprobate mind. In other words, God lets people do what seems right, apart from the light of revelation or the light of natural law. There are no breaks in this clown car, and we are heading off the cliff. It won't be until we believe the Lord Jesus and turn to Him that we will be delivered out of darkness into the light of truth. There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but apart from God, that way that seems right are the ways of death.