Sometimes we say to people, half in jest, \u2018Try to be good. And if you can\u2019t be good, be careful!\u2019 The idea being that if you decide not<\/i> to be good, make sure you\u2019re clever enough not to get caught. But in reality, our lack of goodness is no laughing matter. <\/p>\n
In the words of Robert Fitch: \u2018Ours is an age where ethics has become obsolete. Morality is superseded by science, deleted by philosophy, and dismissed as emotive by psychology. It drowns in compassion, evaporates in aesthetics, and retreats before relativism. The usual moral distinctions between good and bad are simply bathed in a maudlin emotion in which we feel more sympathy for the murderer than the murdered, for the adulterer than for the betrayed, and in which we have actually begun to believe that the real guilty party\u2014the one who somehow caused it all\u2014is the victim and not the perpetrator of the crime.\u2019 <\/p>\n
Those are sobering thoughts. Things that were once considered black or white are now categorised as grey. Goodness that used to meet a universal standard is now a matter of personal interpretation and preference. And an epidemic of public officials whose private conduct leaves us shocked hasn\u2019t made things any better. <\/p>\n
Right about now you may be thinking, \u2018I read this devotional<\/i> every day to get something that will help me feel good, and today isn\u2019t doing it.\u2019 That\u2019s the whole point! In order to feel<\/i> good, the Bible says you must practise doing<\/i> good and being<\/i> good, which makes you a \u2018pleasure\u2019<\/i> to God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometimes we say to people, half in jest, \u2018Try to be good. And if you can\u2019t be good, be careful!\u2019 The idea being that if you decide not to be good, make sure you\u2019re clever enough not to get caught. But in reality, our lack of goodness is no laughing matter. In the words of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}