As you skim through Facebook and other media outlets our eyes are often drawn to the bold print. We see what others want us to see. And in a world filled with sexual immorality we often only look at the bold print issues. Things like homosexuality, same-sex marriage and pornography. But is there a darker plague behind the bold print?

When we look and examine sin that we personally do not fight or battle it has a way of making us feel better about ourselves. It’s easy to have our heartbroken over the failure of another. But why are we not as quick to have our eyes drawn to our own immorality? 

When we think of the issue of  immorality we need to begin to see how Christ asked us to think. Christ said that if we even think about immoral things it’s the same as committing the act itself. In 1 Corinthians 5 Paul includes greed and idolatry with immorality. How much of what we watch, think and talk about places others before God?

There’s a slow fade that has happened because of Christian-self-righteousness. As we categorize one sin above another we have allowed other sin to settle in. If it’s true that for a man to lust after a woman, (or in a woman’s case, for a woman to fantasize after a man) that it’s immoral. Why have we allowed young men and woman who are not married to have such intimate relationships that bring on such strong sexual thoughts? 

Why have we allowed such strong depictions of greed, sex and idolatry for our entertainment? Why has the church allowed disunity? What breaks Gods heart more? His own children lashing one another with their tongues? Or the world acting the way God’s word says it will? 

For a renewing of the world we need s renewing of ourselves. We must recognize how we have allowed immorality to creep in and desensitize us. Fight for righteousness. Fight for holiness. Stop the fade and shine like lights. 

1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. 2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. 1 Corinthians 5:1-2