COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SCANDAL-LIVING IN SHADES OF GREY
Prov 20:6 most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness: but
a faithful man who can find?
What’s moral & what’s immoral & when have we crossed that line?
A few questions to ask:
1.
What
would you do for your kids?
2.
What
would you do for a family member?
3.
What
laws are breakable
4.
What
laws are breakable when it involves family
5.
What
laws are breakable when it affects you?
We all understand there’s lots of laws out there, but we also have “our own understanding” of what laws are true laws and well, then there’s the others….The problem between the courts and its citizens is the courts and judges, see all their laws as “legit laws”, but we don’t! To us, it just depends on the situation……Your teen shouldn’t drive without a license, it’s a law! You agree, until the day you’re feeling lazy, you’re warm and cozy in bed, it’s raining, cold & miserable out there, so on that day, you tell your teen, “just take the keys and be careful and don’t get caught either!”
Yesterday it
was a law that could not be broken today, well that’s changed. What changed
from one day to the next? Well, not
the law….You changed, your circumstances changed.
God also sees all his laws as “legit laws” , but again, we don’t! Or we do one day, but not the next. Immorality is wrong…it’s the law until we find someone we are really are attracted to or someone we really want to be with, then the law changes.
God also sees all his laws as “legit laws” , but again, we don’t! Or we do one day, but not the next. Immorality is wrong…it’s the law until we find someone we are really are attracted to or someone we really want to be with, then the law changes.
The mother
with a 5 & 7 year old is asked if its right to bribe your kids way into University,
she says “well no, it’s against the law, you can’t bribe people!” Fast forward and ask her 11 years later when
her kids can’t get into the University she wants them in and now that law
changes….now it’s okay to “bend the rules a little bit…or a lot”.
We change as our circumstances change. Our
code of conduct, our morality changes, based off of the particular set of
circumstances and situations we are dealing with. Some laws we understand and agree with [obviously
thou shall not murder] but others…I mean really? Which are the laws as citizens
do we feel can be broken?
Comment: “I don’t lie!!!”
Reply: what are you talking about, you told me that
one time the school called you lied and said your son was sick” and he wasn’t.
Answer: well that’s different, if he had one more
unexcused absence he was gonna be set back.
Reply: So you
do lie?
Answer: No!
Reply: But
you just said…
Answer: But
that’s different. I just told you the “situation” I was in!
Lori Loughlin’s
reasoning is….. “Well let me think this
thru…who is getting hurt here? Nobody
Who is
benefitting? Lots of people! This is situational ethics! Often taught, ironically in University
Classes such as Social & Political Philosophy. What are ethics – what we believe between to
be right and wrong, so situational ethics means there’s no definitive right and
wrong, just depends on the situation.
Today, the
parents of the Loughlin girls are arrested and the children are in shock.
According to the
source, bella, 20, and olivia, 19, are in shock over arrest" they never
expected their parents to be charged for any crime, let alone one related to
them." “they’ve always seen themselves as a good, honest family that works
hard and follows the rules, but everything has changed overnight," the
source says. "the reality of all of this has been devastating.”
I believe
they do see themselves as “good and honest” We all see ourselves as good and
honest until a law crosses us we no longer agree with.
As
Christian we should no longer ascribe to ethics that are dependent on “the
circumstances or situation”.
Is this
really hurting anyone?
Who will
even know about it?
How bad is
this really? Is no longer the issue….
Would not god find this
out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
We down
play laws, make things grey…Instead of black and white we prefer to live in ‘shades
of grey”.
And this
is not only in secular society, but as Christians, we are not too far from the secular
in our approach to laws & ethics. In
the world, they live in shades of grey, & that’s what gets people into
trouble. That’s what gets seemingly good parents in jail.
As Christians, do we still live in shades
of grey? Do we still live in the world of
“well…..you know….it’s kind of complicated…..it’s not so black and white” No, it’s not complicated, what’s complicated
is your conflict with right
Gen 4 – “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do
what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you.”
It’s not
grey, it’s simply the struggle to do right and honor the law.
We are
functioning to a new set of codes
Proverbs 21:2 - “all a man’s
ways seem right to him, but the lord weighs the heart.”
This is a
great revelation and why this story is not losing traction because so many of
us traffic in this world of “shades of grey” but we’ve never been busted and it
opens our eyes to the fact that there are laws that are constantly being broken
that we don’t think twice about! Murder,
raping and drug cartels and violence” for sure I must adhere to, but somehow if
I’m a white suburbanite woman, who looks pretty, cutting corners here and bribing a person
here and there, for no other purpose than getting my girl into university, is
that really a crime, or should I say, is it really a “punishable” crime?
I mean
really? I’m gonna go to jail over the
fact that I did some illegal stuff to get my kid in University, to better
herself and probably better society as a whole.
If we are
not careful, we as Christians become not too far removed from these women and
others in the secular world.
Ø
There
are far worse things going on than what I’m involved in
Ø
There
are people doing far worse than what I’m doing
Ø
If
you think I’m lying, you have no idea….
Ø
If
you think I’m immoral, ha! You should
meet…
And though
all these statements may be true, how does that make what you are doing right? Of course there’s people doing worse than
bribing your kid’s way into a good University.
How do you compare Loughton to El Chappo?
You can’t,
there’s no comparison, but she is still wrong, her acts are still illegal. God doesn’t
grade on the curve
and neither
do the courts, so Lori Loughlin has discovered.
As Christians
we must adopt God’s standards, His morality, his integrity.
I am a
liar, a thief and immoral man!
I cannot
for one minute rely on:
My integrity,
my character or my sense of morality.
Romans 7:18 - For I know that in
me, dwelleth no good thing
# 1 Do not
put black and white laws in to shades of grey
# 2 Do not consult with yourself before you an
unethical/moral decision, are you kidding me?!
We as the
church….need to be different! I’m not holding on to my old code of conduct, so
easily revised for my convenience. I have no righteousness of my own to count
on. As Christians, we take on Christ’s righteousness!
1 Corinthians 1:30 – “It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who
has become for us wisdom from God-that is, our righteousness”
I have no
righteous of my own. I must take on Christ’s righteousness. It’s constant and
doesn’t change to the times or circumstances.
It is a new standard, a new code of conduct.
Never consult
with ourselves about a struggle to do right or with ethics, but rather with God
because we can know He will always lead us down the straight path, the path of
righteousness.
Psalm 23 - “He
leads me in paths of righteousness”
Where are
you going to lead you? Do we understand as Christians, we have embraced a new
code of conduct.
This code
of conduct was not written by you and cannot be revised or edited by you!
It is our
safeguard, our safe keeping, but the choice will always remain ours, as to whether
or not we choose to abide by definitive laws, both in the secular and/or
religious or whether we choose to live in shades
of grey.
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