BBD 08.01.13 Living the Right Way (Classic)
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08.01.13
Living the Right Way
You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. - Leviticus
19:11.
These six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: a
proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that
devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness
who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren. - Proverbs 6:16-19.
Austin Kenyon claimed to have caught a record-breaking
small mouth bass which weighed in at 9.32 pounds on a certified scale. The
state ruled that the bass had some extra unfish-like weight added as in lead
weights. Keith Underwood of the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife
gave the official ruling, "Our
determination is that the fish had been stuffed with lead weights at the time
it was inspected." A couple of
Kenyon’s friends gave statements indicating the fish had been tampered with
prior to it being weighed. The actual record for a small mouth bass is held by Ray
Wonacott who caught an 8.75-pounder in 1966.
In the United Kingdom nearly one-half (45%) of those
surveyed admitted to having committed forgery. One-fifth (21%) admitted to
having used fake identity cards. 18% admitted to actually forging some type of identification
card. Others admitted to forging and using doctor’s notes, reference letters,
fake letters on company letterhead, travel tickets, concert tickets, and
sporting event tickets.
It appears that the modern society in which we live has
little difficulty with dishonesty. Perhaps, it is because of the dishonesty of
the adults that the young people appear to engage in dishonesty so frequently.
Rutgers’ Management Education Center in a national survey found that 75% of
High School Students in the U.S. engage in "serious cheating." Half
of those surveyed indicated that "they
don’t think copying questions and answers from a test is even cheating." One student rationalized the situation by saying, "What's important is getting ahead. The better grades you have, the
better school you get into, the better you're going to do in life. And if you
learn to cut corners to do that, you're going to be saving yourself time and
energy. In the real world, that's what's going to be going on. The better you
do, that's what shows. It's not how moral you were in getting there."
Where do you begin to address the moral morass that our
world is in? The dishonesty pervades our society with so
many politicians, if not outright lying in the face of cameras, are at the very
least obviously shading the truth. You have to wonder sometimes if they even
know what the truth is - or have they lied so much that they cannot
remember?
If there is to be any hope for our society, for our
world, for our countries - we must return to the absolute moral principles
set down by God in the Bible because everything else is shifting sand. Does
it matter how you are able to become a student in a certain university? Does it
matter how you were able to become a rising star in the corporate world? Does
it matter how you were able to be elected to a political office? Is it okay
to lie, cheat, steal, and deceive your way to the top? The answer is NO,
NO, NO! It is NOT okay! It is W R O N G! It is a S I N!
The truth is that by living according to God’s principles
and commands that we may not make it to the top of the heap. However, we can
have some things that are much better and much more important. We can have a clear
conscience, we can have peace, we can feel good about ourselves,
we can have contentment, and we can be an example of what to do
instead of what not to do.
Living the right way is usually not the easy way but then
it is the right way and it is God’s way for your life. Try it, and see
how God begins to order your steps (Psalm
37:23) to give you a real life. "For the LORD knows the way of the righteous (Psalm 1:6a)."
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