Be Obedient Even When You Don’t Understand the Command

Sometimes God’s moral commands in Scripture don’t make sense to us. This is not surprising since we’re living in a time when we’re constantly being catechized by worldviews and ethical systems other than Christianity, and our perception of reality—not to mention our resulting intuition about what’s right and what’s wrong—is skewed.

Think, for example, of our understanding of the nature of human beings. If, as our culture is constantly telling us, we are the result of random evolution, if our bodies were not created for a purpose, if the goal of life is to maximize pleasure, if sex is nothing more than a physical act devoid of significance, if our identity is created by our own expression of our desires, then what sense can be made of God prohibiting sex outside of opposite-sex marriage?

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