Everyone's Doing It

If you attended high school, you probably heard the phrase uttered by someone, "come on and try it, everyone's doing it." What was the standard answer to this question? "If everyone was jumping off a bridge, would you do it to?" Of course not! Everyone's doing it is the catch phrase of a generation and country without a moral compass.

Our culture triumphs relativity as its greatest virtue. Nothing could be further from Biblical truth. The Bible is about absolutes: God is absolutely sovereign, absolutely perfect, and His Word is absolutely true - to name just a few. If we want to see thing turn bad quick in our lives, the best way is to turn to relativity - especially moral relativity. Let me illustrate with this story:

At the time of his distress, King Ahaz himself became more unfaithful to the Lord. He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him; he said, "Since the gods of the kings of Aram are helping them, I will sacrifice to them so that they will help me." But they were the downfall of him and of all Israel. - 2 Chronicles 28:22-23

Look at these simple verses. Poor King Ahaz thought that worship was relative. He said, "Well, if this God of Israel thing is not working out, I will go ahead and try the gods of my enemies. Let's see what happens with these gods." How flippant. Worship is not and can never be - relative. God desires His peoples' hearts to be fully and absolutely His. He deserves nothing else. He wants His children to follow the absolutes that He has set up for them in His Word. Why? So we can see the blessing and joy that is promised through absolute obedience. This DOES NOT mean that we become mindless robots following a dictator. We, however, "delight ourselves in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart (Psalm 37:4)." Pretty soon our desires becomes His and we live, move and breath just like He would. Our heart beats with His.

Just like in high school, it was never good to do what "everyone was doing." It never ended good, did it? Why do we see so many heading towards downfall? Maybe it is relativity. Maybe we should seek absolute worship of the absolute King!