Redefining Truth and Righteousness – Sunday Thought For The Day
Secularism is the view that all things biblically religious, i.e., Christian, have no place in the public square, specifically pertaining to political, educational, and social values and concerns. Thanks to secularism and humanism, God and biblically Christian values have been redefined as intolerant and unkind. Courts have ruled with increasing frequency that, depending on the circumstances, Christ-centered religion has no place in the home.
The created have determined they are above the Creator. Dennis Fisher once wrote: “Every age has its own thoughts, ideas, and values that influence the culture, ‘the spirit of the age.’ It is the kind of growing consensus that morally lulls us to sleep, and gradually causes us to accept society’s latest values. This is the world’s peer pressure – a satanically inspired system of values and ideas that cultivates a lifestyle that is independent of God.” (The Spirit Of The Age; ODB.org; 12/3/12)
Many churches have become accepting of every form of debauchery and corruption, because humanism and secularism have replaced righteousness and the fear of the Lord, i.e., the reverential awe, deep respect, and the recognition of God’s power and authority.
Without “the fear of the Lord” mankind is ruled by sin, pride, and every form of wicked machination. With the fear of the Lord, Christians strive for obedience, biblical wisdom, and faithfulness, with worship, holiness, and Christ centered love.
Today our nation may be overrun with illegal aliens, corrupt courts, and wokeism; but, our nation was overrun by a turning away from God first. What we see today, is the result of man believing themselves to above God.
READ:
Romans 1:21-32 (KJV)
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
About the Author
Mychal Massie
Mychal S. Massie is an ordained minister who spent 13 years in full-time Christian Ministry. Today he serves as founder and Chairman of the Racial Policy Center (RPC), a think tank he officially founded in September 2015. RPC advocates for a colorblind society. He was founder and president of the non-profit “In His Name Ministries.” He is the former National Chairman of a conservative Capitol Hill think tank; and a former member of the think tank National Center for Public Policy Research. Read entire bio here