Today's Devotional

 

 May 21, 2009

 

Subject:  Hard To Do Right

Jeremiah 4:22 "For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

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The character issue will always be there.  In two separate news articles that I read yesterday, it clearly shows that if you could sell integrity and honor at Wal-Mart, many people wouldn't buy it.  

The first case was a New Zealand couple who applied to a bank there for $6,000 line of credit.  The bank mistakenly gave them $6 million and the couple literally took the money and ran.  There is now an international search for the couple now on the run.  That makes you ask, "what would I have done?"  Surely if you're reading on this Christian blog you should answer, "I would have given the money back."  

In the other case, a new video showed up with police in Alabama chasing suspect.  The suspect's car/van flipped over throwing the suspect to the ground, leaving him unconsciously lying there.  The cops stop get out of their cars and commence to beating the unconscious man.  The tape is over a year old and just came to light and the policemen have had their jobs terminated.  That one makes you ask, "whose training these people?"  Of course it doesn't take much training to understand human decency.  We even have a cliché about "kicking a man while he's down."  You just don't do it.

As the verse says, it seems so many people have no knowledge of how to do the good or right thing, but they are so wise to do evil.  That's the character issue.  It takes effort to gain in wisdom of either.  If you first want to do right, you will find out/gain knowledge of what it takes to do it.  If you don't care about doing right, you are already smart in evil and that you will do.  That is foolishness.                   

Carlen