Do you show the same discrimination between good and evil that God does?

© 2015 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

Are you a victim of inflammatory language which manipulates you with emotional trigger-words like “discrimination?”  This trigger-word has been used to arouse racial anger and resentment in many.  Yet, this word is not, primarily, a racially oriented word.  It simply means “to distinguish between things that differ”

We each constantly rely on proper discrimination to avoid harm and death.  Do you discriminate between poison and medicine when reaching into your medicine cabinet?  Do you discriminate between healthy food and “junk-food” at the grocery store?  Do you discriminate between red and green traffic lights when driving your car?  If not, your life is likely to be short!

God, Himself, originated discrimination.  During the week of creation, he created light and separated it from darkness (Genesis 1:3-4).  God’s Word, the Bible, commands discrimination between good and evil.  Yet ever since Adam and Eve failed to obey God’s command to discriminate between the forbidden fruit and that which was allowed, man’s history has been plagued by continued disobedience of God’s discriminating standards.  Death resulted.  Good and evil have been confused.  God condemns the confusion of good and evil.

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20).

God forbids such evils as adultery, sodomy, and murder.  This prohibition includes murder of the unborn.  Yet, today, many who embrace these things are publicly praised for it.

The apostle Paul wrote to Timothy, encouraging him to discriminate between good and evil:

“Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart” (2 Timothy 2:22)

Only Christ’s sacrificial death can restore such proper discrimination in man’s dead heart.  God the Son, shed His blood at Calvary to pay the penalty for sin.  Have your non-discriminating evil choices caused you to be sleepless and heavy laden over sin?  Then hear Christ’s invitation.

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).

“All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37).

Have you come to Christ in repentance, seeking to embrace His proper discrimination between good and evil?

 

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