What is Your Standard of Morality?

     I read an article recently about a "clergyman" of a prominent main line denomination who states that we are getting thing all wrong because the Bible is all wrong.  That alone makes me wonder about the credentials of the man and the denomination but that is what people seem to be thinking these days.  The so called clergyman remarks that since the Bible was written by men it is full of mistakes, therefore we are wrong in the conclusions that we have in regard to many modern day issues.  It made me just a tad irritated to say the least that someone would even dare to say that the Bible is wrong because it contains countless errors.    Psalm 119:1 says, "Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD."  

       The LORD chose this verse for today because it comes from Psalm 119 whose 176 verses speak of the great value and authority of the Word of God.  All but 5 of those 176 verses speak about the Law, the Word, the Commandments, the statutes of the Word of God.  The Psalmist loved the Word and so do I.  That being said, I still see a general movement away from the Bible and see in its place a system of misplaced values.  If a person can receive punishment for abusing a puppy but kill an infant and receive no punishment, then it shows that we have misplaced values.  Taking the life of another human being is murder and is wrong in both the Old and New Testaments.  Even the Lord Jesus Christ summarized the Law into two commandments which spoke about loving God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength and your neighbor as your self.  That sums up the Ten Commandments.  It is obvious when watches the media that the morals of the present day world are corrupt and are being replaced by things that are contrary to the Word of God.  We are fast approaching the final verse of the Book of Judges where it states that "... In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes."   We are beginning to "reap what we have sown."   We know from the Word of God and even the historical accounts of Biblical empires that disobeyed God would soon fall into oblivion.  Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome all fell as world empires because of their failure to bow before the LORD Jehovah.  We can now ask the question, "Who's next?"  God's prophecies are coming true right before our eyes and yet we just keep on doing what we are doing and not taking any care for the Word of God.  So, what are you and I to do in this present age?  We need to have a love for the Word of God that matches that of the Psalmist who wrote Psalm 119.  Read the Psalm for yourself and see if it matches what you are experiencing in your own life. Do you love the Word of God?  Is the Word of God a lamp unto your feet and a light unto your path?  Praise God today for His Word and make a covenant with God to stand on His Word no matter what takes place around you.