Scripture Prompt
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light
and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight! (Isaiah 5:20–21, ESV)
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and yet, what started out as an innocuous idiom has devolved into the bedrock mantra of this cultural moment.
It is no longer just beauty but truth that is in the heart of the individual. And if you think that Christians are impervious to this line of thinking, I’d encourage you to perhaps dip your toes in social media and take the temperature of the Evangelical World (especially in America).
The running joke seems to be what kind of letter would the Apostle Paul pen the American Church. I doubt he just stops at two.
But this isn’t a polemic or diatribe about the state of the Church; it's about Isaiah 5:20–21.
Sin is a travesty, its toxins embedded deep in all of humanity. It’s devastating, not only because it brings great displeasure and dishonor to God, but it wreaks havoc on the goodness of Creation.
You can almost think of sin as humanity playing a reverse Uno card against God. And it is in that shattering of Shalom in which everything is…