Imagine a scenario like this...
He's driving down the road, on his
usual course. It's not easy being law enforcement, and today is no
exception...
Spotting a speeder, he decides this one
at least needs a warning. Lights go on, and the car in front of him pulls off the road.
Walking up to the door, he asks for ID.
The driver is irate. “Why are you pulling me over? Didn't you see
the twenty other drivers who just passed me? They were all speeding!
Everyone speeds! Why are you bothering me?”
Finishing up, he gets back in his car,
just in time to hear a call that a shoplifter has been caught. He
goes as fast as safety allows to the next scene...
Upon arriving, he decides to try and
talk it through with the individual. But they are livid. “What's
wrong with me taking
something I want? I just watched five others walk out with stuff, and
what they took was worth five times what I did!”
He
just can't make sense of this day.
And neither can I.
My
friends, do we easily follow the crowd? Does righteousness consist in
how many people are doing it? If something was once wrong, does it
become right, once the multitude decides it is right?
Solemn
thoughts. Thoughts that scare me not a little...
I
wonder if I am following the crowd. I wonder if I have “majority
righteousness”.
I
wonder if I need to re-examine my values, and base them off of the
true, rather than the popular.
Ouch.
I think so.
Some people say that it's okay if we bring percussion and this new contemporary music style into our churches simply because it's the culture nowadays, and it would seem kinda odd to still sing 'them old stodgy hymns'. But don't we realize that culture changes quite frequently, and yet God never changes?
ReplyDeleteYes... and it's the case in everything we do. May God help us to live like Him.
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