Honest lives lead to contentment

The human ability to compartmentalize life is tearing at the lives of individuals, families, communities and even tattering at the social fabric society. The saying, "What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas." But what happens in Las Vegas -- or anywhere else for that matter -- must not stay in Las Vegas! If behaviour is immoral in my comunity or personal life at home the it's immoral in Las Vegas, or in New Orleans during Marti Gras. Moral accountability resides everywhere: It must never be checked at any door.

Betrayal of solemn wedding vows and the marriage bed always destroys that which is sacred and ordained by God. Is there ever a place, time or circumstance when God turns a blind eye to the breakdown of an institution He created? Men may be unfaithful but God is faithful.

Killing a child in the womb may be accepted by people and even societies but it is an affront to God! Is the child whose birth is betrayed ever forgotten by the Almighty? Surely not! God himself said, "Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, but I will not forget you." (Isaiah 49.15.) A mother may forget or betray her motherhood but God will not forget his Fatherhood.

In the years leading to the recent economic melt down, many corporate executives projected a respectable and upstanding exterior while betraying investors' trust and lined their own pockets with unreasonable gain or excessive compensation even to the point of threatening the entire economy. To them, the notion of being modest people living modest but honourable lives was/is anathema: they act like uncrowned royalty entitled to lives of entitlement. The world needs people who walk with their heads in air not their noses in the air.

Ill-gotten gain remains ill-gotten. The definition of ill-gotten is still "gained by evil or unlawful means." The correct response to it is shame not pride.

A person can live like there's no Judgment Day but it doesn't change the fact that there will be a Judgment Day. A man may not believe in God but God still exists. An age of relative truths and situational ethics can not dispel the absolute truth that there is absolute Truth.

The Ten Commandments can be removed from the foyer of a courthouse and locked away, ... but the Ten Commandments still exist and will continue to exist long after the ACLU has closed its doors. The ACLU does not define justice and fairness -- God does.

History teaches that people who lead modest, honest and wholesome lives -- keeping short accounts with God -- are apt to find contentment and sleep well.

MP