After reading a recent commentary by Dr. Al Mohler, President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, I was reminded of the foolishness of the Cross-life. It is utter non-sense to the world that we are fixed upon the value of living in ways that seek to give God glory as opposed to merely living by efficient or pragmatic standards.
The editors of the LA Times express their incomprehension of the American desire to
see marital fidelity in our nation’s leaders. They hope that through this coming election cycle we might might see that “this would be a good year for Americans to practice the fine French art of divorcing judgments about sex from judgments about policy.”
Really? The article makes plain that the old-media elites, entrenched in their liberal bubble, believe that Americans are basically backwards because of our concern that a man’s (or woman’s) marital past has any bearing whatsoever on their character or moral uprightness.
The LA Times takes as its case study the French ability to elect Nicolas Sarkozy without much todo over his very recent divorce should be a model for America. In fact, the shock was not anything concerning his actual marital woes, but instead that these woes were given any note in the news at all seems to be the story. It seems that in France, they have matured beyond any concern between a person’s sexual/marital past and their political decisions.
The truth of the matter is that there could be no better way to understand a person’s character than to examine their marriage. Paul makes this clear to Timothy and to Titus. If a man is found unfit to manage his own house, how then could he be expected to lead others? This link between family life and fitness for leadership is something that appears just plain backwards to the modern mind, yet it is this very link that seems to be unwinding the fabric of our nation.
As we pull and pull to get the threads of old-fashioned morality out of the fabric of our nation, what we are all finding is that these were the threads that were holding us together. We are fraying the entire garment and soon we will find ourselves merely a pile of thread held together loosely at best.
I am reminded of a recent commercial that bemoaned the loss of the value of commitment. While they were hoping to sell us on their commitment to us, the customer, I was struck by how out of place that kind of commercial is in our nation. Commitments are things that good if convenient, but completely unnecessary by most accounts. We live in an extraordinarily uncommitted time.
May God raise up men & women, husbands & wives, fathers & mothers who see the value of commitment to God’s Word and His standards for living. If we find ourselves uncommitted, may it be that we are not committed to the ways of this world, but instead are fixed without reservation on living as those whose hope is in Christ alone.
