I want to be careful as I write and with what I have already written. I do not want to give the impression that I care nothing for morality, or that I am encouraging immorality. However, I do want to make sure that it is clear that the motive of a Christian is to bring glory to God because of the transformation through the Gospel of Christ, not because I am a self-determined moralist. What we many times refer to as morality, in the Christian sense, is a product, or in Bibline language, a fruit. It is something that is produced by a transformed heart and life. Morality itself is not the transformation.
In a line from the song that I quoted in my previous post, it states that “God’s gotta change her heart before He changes her shirt.” This is so true. Christ didn’t demand that the publicans and sinners clean up their act before He ministered to them. The good news that He had for them was that through Him God changes hearts. The product of that is that the outside will change if that is what the Spirit of God chooses to do. Ultimately, God’s work is His, not ours. It is something that He will do. He doesn’t need us. He will use us if it is His will.
And an additional thought: If morality is the issue, who determines it? Who makes the calls? Unfortunately, usually it is the one who yells the loudest. Unfortunately because Christ says that the meek will inherit the earth. Normally it is not the meek who are yelling the loudest, if they care at all.
this is “grace at work”
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