‘Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!’ (Isaiah 4:20).
There is a strange superstition in both ancient men and modern men that switching the label changes the nature of a thing. If you label the killing of a child in the womb of a mother a termination, it ceases to be murder. If you label the union of two men, or two women, marriage, it becomes equivalent in nature and value to the union of a man and a woman. If you label a bitter potion sweet, it becomes sweet. If you label an evil practice good, it becomes good.
Our political leaders seem intent on foisting the latter folly on us, but they will change nothing, as to the real nature of the things concerned, and they will gain nothing by their conjuring trick. A child can see through their switching tactic. Perhaps it takes a child, as in Hans Christian Andersen’s fable, to see the nakedness of the emperor, and one who is childlike in heart to see the nakedness of our leaders’ lust for popularity at any price.
But mischief remains mischief, though it is framed according to correct legal forms, and the throne of iniquity is just as far off from God as it ever was, for all its sophistication and subtlety (Psalm 94:20). This whole Psalm is full of sound, comforting, and enlightening instruction in our present situation. So much of it seems relevant that I will not quote any of it, but simply urge you to read it. The only thing I will mention is that God remains a defence and rock of refuge to his people in circumstances like ours, while he also remains the God of overwhelming justice (verses 22, 23).
May God arise and have mercy on many that are trapped in the iniquity I have alluded too. May they be washed, sanctified, and justified, as the Corinthians were, in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God (1 Corinthians 6:11). May the lie that conservative Christians hate them be proved false, and may they believe that we love and pity them. But may it be clear to them that we cannot repackage their sin as righteousness, or cast a cloak of benign approval over what God labels abominable.
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