We live in a world that is driven by its emotions. This plays out in many ways.
Firstly, people base their morality on how they feel. What you think should be okay becomes okay for you. Basically, right and wrong are relative to how you feel on a given day. You may set a standard for yourself, and say, “I will never cross this line”; but once you hit that line, you will cross it, rationalize it, and make another line in its place further along. Then, down the path of your experience, the process will repeat itself. What you previously believed to be immoral suddenly becomes okay when you are faced with the choice to go through with that very thing.
Secondly, and stemming from this first thing, people shape God in their own image. You think to yourself what you’d like God to be like, keeping all the “good” traits, eliminating what you don’t like, and of course include yourself as someone who gets to go to heaven.
Reality simply does not work this way. There is such thing as an absolute right and wrong that does not change with our feelings. Murder is wrong whether we feel that way or not when pointing a gun at someone who hurt you in some way. Likewise, God is true to his nature, character and Word, regardless of how we feel about it.
Someone may accuse me of being narrow-minded about such a view of God. To you I ask this question: Are you truly seeking after God? In your view of God, are you really interested in finding the truth, and therefore truly knowing him. If your answer is no, then your view of God is irrelevant. If your answer is yes, then doesn’t it make sense to seek out God where he may be found, as the Bible says. If God has revealed himself to this world in the person of Jesus Christ and has provided the only way of salvation through him, it is not at all narrow-minded for God to point you in the direction that he has made for you to know him.
Morality, truth and God do have an absolute fixed point of reference. If you are really seeking after the truth, then we must find this point of reference, and live life accordingly.
May I point you in the right direction: That absolute point is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Posted by Krista Dominguez 
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