I was at my Chiropractor this morning & heard him make an interesting statement while speaking to a woman patient receiving treatment. They were speaking about how crazy the world has become & the doctor said, "I think we should do away with all bad people." The woman's response was predictable: "Who do you think the bad people are?" The doc thought for a second, then said, "You know, heroin addicts, murderers ... people like that." The conversation drifted off into another direction, but I felt the Holy Spirit reminding me of something I wrote in one of my books. How man cannot govern himself because there must be a set of rules to determine what we should or shouldn't do and we are incapable of constructing such a list without it being infused with our own emotions, prejudices & past calamitous events. Who should set up such rules?
It also struck me that he mentions heroin addicts & murderers in the same breath. Interesting. That simple statement leads me to believe that he considers himself a good person, at the very least better than those two groups of people. I think most people have a pretty lofty opinion of themselves. They point out all the people they consider not as good as them morally and/or ethically and salve their already numbed conscience by declaring, "At least I don't do what he or she does." Their fatal flaw is who they are comparing themselves to. There's a reason scripture says, "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). The reason is that we need to compare ourselves to the One who created us and not others created beings. Bad people will always exist, but as long as God puts off Christ's return there is always hope for all who have sinned.
