What if your "right" is wrong?

A friend of mine performed an outdoor wedding yesterday. For November, the weather was beautiful. The setting was gorgeous, there was a tranquil pasture, a babbling brook feeding into a pond. A gracious hawk circling the event. It all looked so beautiful. Except... there was a pig farm up the field and there was a horrible stench!

Interestingly enough, once you out of your car, and survived the original shock, eventually - you no longer can tell that the smell is there.

It's odd how that works. I once coached soccer at this field where you had to drive by a sewage treatment plant to get to the fields. Within a few minutes - you no longer can tell that there's this bad smell in the air.

Sin is the same way. When you fall into sin, at first, you are sensitized to it. You feel bad about it. Then... it can become a normal way of life - so that you don't even notice it.

Jesus described it this way: 

“The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. (Matthew 6:22-24 ESV)

Are there areas in your life that have become so routine that you don't even think about it as wrong anymore? I know, even in my life, there are some areas that I've become calloused. Let's start this week off by taking a look at our own lives and seeing if there are areas where we need to re-submit them to God. Let is struggle not to become so comfortable in this world that we forget that we are citizens of a Holy Kingdom where Christ is King!