We Need God’s Moral Compass - Lee Brainard
When we look around in the world, the variety of viewpoints in religion and morality is staggering. To make it through this vast wilderness of ideas we need God’s moral compass. Notice I did not say a moral compass. Men love to have a moral compass. They love to lean on a religious expert, or a church, or a philosophy. But this is dangerous. If we hold some human expert or institution or testimony to be our trusted compass, then we will be off to the degree that they are off. And they are all wrong, to some degree or another. The only compass that is always right and never wrong is God’s compass.
So where does a man find God’s moral compass? Happily there is no need to go anywhere to find it. You probably have one at home already. And if you don’t have one, they are readily available. Copies can be had for less than the price of a coffee-shop coffee. I refer, of course, to the Bible — any literal translation of the Bible.
So pick up your Bible today and start reading — the Gospels first, then the rest of the NT, then the OT. The whole book is truly, fully, and purely the Word of God. “All Scripture is inspired of God and profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:16). “The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver … refined seven times (Psalm 12:6).
~Lee Brainard, December 6, 2014