"The World Rewards Sin"

     Recently, I was privileged to be a member of staff for the VA YMCA's Model General Assembly. The basic gist of the program is that the kids get to come to Virginia's capitol for 3 days and do everything that the actual Virginia Assembly does. Beforehand, the high school kids are supposed to patron different bills to support their ideas and positions. As staff, my particular job was to track the student's bills from house to house, recording the decisions made in committee and in chambers. As we (staff) watched the debate going on between these students, over issues such as the legalization of marijuana, abortion, the legalization of civil unions, and even a bill that would have stricken our most recent decision (as a state) to ban gay marriage, one of the other staff persons looked over and said during our discussion, "the world rewards sin". 

To be honest, that phrase hit me hard. It was something I had never thought out before, let alone heard straight from the mouth of a friend. To me, it was profound, in every sense. As I thought on that particular phrase, my mind wandered particularly to those bills that regarded civil union, HOMOSEXUALITY, something that the Bible gives speaks clearly and explicitly about, saying that it is unnatural for men to have relations with men and women with women. But, as our society "modernizes" itself with what everyone would call "civil rights", my heart continues to break at the belief that homosexuality is just "how some people are". My heart continues to break that our society believes that it is a woman's "right" to take the life of her unborn child should she wish to (I do believe, however, that the Lord can and will use these decisions to touch a person's heart, even amidst the consequences).  

As I read the news and see Vermont and Iowa legalizing marriage between same-sex couples, I become increasingly broken over this issue of how the world rewards sin. We are a broken people, so much so that even CHRISTIANS reward the sin in this world as we vote for "civil rights" which go against the very word of God, supporting sinful actions. How is the church ever able to stand up for what they believe in if we can't live out what we're called to support in casting a ballot. I have seen people brought out of homosexuality, out of the lust which I believe causes this unnatural occurrence. It is our turn to pray without ceasing, to PRAY, speak to God, interceding on all our behalves, that we may not yield to sin in our midst. My prayer is that God would speak to our lawmakers, to our President, to us, and that He would give us boldness to proclaim the Good News, and the strength to stand up for the law of the Lord, not the law of the world.

 To end,  the world rewards sin, and the majority of the time, the sad truth is that we do nothing to stop it.