Sliced Diced and Mashed/Lost Art

Lost Art

And the judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

                                                                                                              …Isaiah 59:14

           

            My husband and I were driving around our city of Springfield, Missouri commenting how there doesn’t exist morals, and godly character any more.  The words proper, decent, and appropriate are words which my husband refers to as relative. Meaning—depending on how individuals perceive, or view the subject matter, is whether it is right or wrong.  I even found myself looking up the word proper in the dictionary to see if there was a p or pp, since the written form is almost archaic.

            Discussing further, trying between ourselves to solve the world’s dilemmas, it was mentioned how we don’t see any integrity displayed.  My bother-in-law applied for a job, went to the interview where a question was asked of him, “If you saw a fellow worker stealing, would you turn him in?”  Interesting isn’t it, that the question would need to be asked?  The code of thieves is, “Don’t tell.”

            A couple of days later, we were driving in a residential neighborhood when I caught a glimpse of a yard sign with “Integrity for rent” in big lettering.  I chuckled to myself as I thought, If you haven’t any integrity, rent some.  We are almost to that point aren’t we?

            Of course, the integrity sign displayed a home realty company advertising on their rental property.  We have to have a sense of humor in this world of mixed up values.

            I know where a guide for living can be found with tools that will equip anyone to be proper, decent, and appropriate in every way; in the Word of God.  His Word is not archaic, it is Truth.  Here, integrity is not rented it is free, for those who choose to live a godly life in Christ.  A question that deserves pondering, “Why is it hard to find these qualities in our Christian family, when we have it displayed so clearly in the person of Jesus Christ?”