The God Who Will Not Wink

Times have changed dramatically over the past decades. With these changes come changes in morality and expectations. According to George Barna's research, when asked what was their greatest concern about their spiritual condition only two topics resulted in at least 1-10 adults being concerned about it: raising moral children with strong faith (14%)and spending more time in prayer and the reading of the Bible (10%). Only 8% were concerned with modeling faith-driven behavior and only 4% were concerned with a need to deepen their faith. It seems that we are not very spiritually conscious. When we assess how morals have changed, this lack of spiritual concern should not surprise us.
For example, George Barna has found that 67% of young adults (20-30 yrs.) believe that living together outside the bounds of marraige is acceptable and that sexual relations outside of marriage is acceptable. When asked what it meant to be holy 21% of Christian adults did not know. Only 35% believed that God expected them to be holy. As a people, even as Christians we have learend to wink at sin. We have had our conscien so seared that it has become callous to the point that only the most horrifying sin revolts us. Only 30% of adult Americans believe in the concept of absolute truth, instead, ethics and morals are based on what feels right.
We have so watered down the truth and become so tolerant of sin that in our self-righteousness, we think that God will also tolerate our sin. We pacify ourselves by pretending that our sin isn't really all that bad. Stop and consider what would happen if 99% were good enough: no phone service for 15 minutes each day, 1.7 million pieces of first class mail would be lost each day, 35,000 new born babies would be dropped by doctors and nurses each year, and 200,000 people would get the wrong prescription medicine each year.
There is a reason God calls us to holiness. Nothing else is acceptable. He doesn't want us to settle for less than the best becuase we are created to glorify Him. Today, we must understand that when it comes to sin, we serve a God Who Will Not Wink. "If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth" (1 John 1:6)