Do you have lines that you will not cross or allow others to cross?

   I think of these lines as morals.  I stand strong to prevent others from crossing this line.  We all share many of these.  It could be a direct attack on us or a loved one physically.  Sometimes though, we have a moral stance that we feel powerless to stop or prevent.  Bullying comes to mind right away.  The sexual harassments made public come to mind as well.  We have morals that we may feel powerless to enforce.

   It’s easy to hold our moral ground when we feel that we have an upper hand.  It’s uncomfortable to hold our moral ground when we feel we are on common standing with our opposition.  Then, it’s very difficult to hold our moral ground when we feel that we are at a disadvantage.  All of those situations are tests that show us how tightly we hold our moral ground.  Sadly, many of us give up our moral ground at the slightest discomfort in defending it.  Sometimes just knowing we have opposition, we give up our morals.

   But our morals are not meant to be lines that we will not cross until we find opposition.  Our morals are meant to be held onto and defended.  Of course, we must actually draw lines or set our morals.  If we don’t, we end up crossing lines that we would otherwise never cross.  And there is nothing wrong with investigating our morals in order to set or change them.  What is bad is not having any.

   Morals are more than just personal.  As a nation, we have always been a moral country.  We stood against the Holocaust.  We even corrected ourselves by outlawing slavery.  As a nation, we have morals.  But nations only have morals if its people have morals.  So, what do we stand for?  If we know that, we will know what we stand against.

   Jesus, help us in setting our morals so as to love You and others better.