“ACCEPTANCE”

The Law Of Psychological Acceptance

 

Perhaps you recall in Gone With the Wind (1940) when Rhett Butler told Scarlett O’Hara “Frankly my dear, I don‘t give a ______.“ We all gasped in shocked disbelief, while today many people yawn at four-letter words and every foul word that is spewed forth, many of which often come from “CHRISTIANS“.

The Law of Psychological Acceptance: “When, in our minds, we habitually tolerate sin, our senses become dulled, thereby diminishing our ability to discern good from evil. Consequently, when faced with choices between the two, we may well choose evil over good, without the slightest awareness of sin or tinge of conscience.”

Because of our magnetic attraction toward that which is depraved, God calls us to nip sin in the bud before we have time to embrace it:

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Romans 12:9

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.  2 Tim 2:22

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.  Prov 8:13

But we live in an “enlightened age” where tolerance is a mark of sophistication. It seems so uncivilized… so dogmatic to “abhor“ or “hate“ anything.

Often we mentally do this simply by:

* Flowing with the crowd when questionable values are put forth as normative?

* Accepting the notion that you have to bend the rules to survive in every day life?

* Embracing the idea that it’s OK for a Christian person to develop a relationship with those who are in the world and who are not saved.

Many Christians today are doing just that by their embracing and participation in the things of the world with their unsaved friends, while God, the church, their church family takes a back seat.

We (for some reason) feel the need To “BE ACCEPTED” by society and by those sinful individuals around us.

As Christians, we should not try to live as close to the world as we can. We must see how far away from the world we can separate ourselves.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you  2 Cor 6:17

There is the story of a camel, who on a cold night poked his nose under the tent and begged his master to let him keep it warm? “Surely allowing the camel to warm his nose isn‘t so terrible,“ thought the Arab. Before he realized it, he was sleeping outside and the camel was in the tent.

THE LAW OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ACCEPTANCE.

QUESTION: Given the present TREND in many “Christian’s“ thinking of either toleration or abhorrence toward sin, what will many Christians be doing a decade from now.