"Woe to those who call evil good, and good
evil; who put darkness for light,
and light for darkness."
(Isa 5:20a NKJ) |
By Rev. Eu Hong Seng
Who can doubt that there is something deeply wrong in our nation? Apathy characterises many in power – care for the poor and suffering is increasingly impersonal. Honour and respect are in short supply – from the top to the bottom. Promiscuity and perversion are escalating. Crime is becoming rampant. Justice is suspect because selective prosecution is practised.
Some politicians lie and cheat like it is second nature to them, and too many plunder the resources of our nation without conscience.
We seem to have lost our moral and spiritual equilibrium. We have allowed the moral fog of evil men to descend and obscure our discernment, blurring the line between good and evil to the point where many are mistaking one for the other.
Let us not forget that Satan is the father of lies. Lying and deceiving are so symptomatic of our times. Refusing to differentiate, many have come to call evil “good” and good “evil”. The Bible warns us of such times and people.
There are many examples of this twisting of right and wrong. For instance, we see evil men devising phrases and statements to solidify misrepresentations, distorting blatantly untrue statements into something that the human psyche passively accepts as truth – words such as “gay rights” and “pro-choice”.
The Bible calls them homosexuality and murder, and they are sins. Closer to home, we have statutory declarations, thrown at each other so freely, so much so these can no longer be taken at face value as statements of truth.
Lying and deceiving are now happily called “spin”, and they typify our generation and so many of our leaders.
The real danger is when the Church is either oblivious or becomes a party to this evil. During the “last days” before the Babylonian captivity, the prophet Jeremiah pointedly accused the people of the Book, by declaring “…truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.” (Jer 7:28b NKJV)
Unless God’s people stand tall as standard bearers to declare truth and call evil and good by their right names, we become participators of these sins. It is time the Church rise from her slumber to disperse the fog so that others may see clearly.
The statesman Edmund Burke once said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
The Church, filled with good men, can be “good for nothing”…unless we speak up! Yes, it’s time we speak up.
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