Good morning everyone,

Isaiah 5:20-Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who put darkness for light
and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

I have been reading a few articles about the death of long time North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. It has been fascinating what I found in reading some of the reactions from Americans and a very telling perspective from a North Korean. "Outside looking" into a communist country, most if not ALL Americans have a very clear hard-line approach as to what is completely wrong in the way Kim Jong Il "ran" North Korea. Reason being is that we are so free, and we never have experienced communism nor were generations in America raised in it. So we can clearly see (most times) that to enslave people for your own personal benefit is clearly wrong (Read "top ten dictators in the world" by TIME magazine about how he lived while his country starved and it will make you sick). But regardless if you believe the reactions to his death in North Korea were genuine or not, given what I read from a North Korean commenting on the dictator and praising him, who are we to say?

Because if we as Americans drift into believing that there is no moral standard of truth for every human, declaring clearly what is right and wrong, how can we say Kim Jong Il was wrong? Being "relative" about Truth takes us to a ridiculous conclusion that we don’t have any standard for what’s right or wrong. People simply live how they want, "and what works for them works for them".

In reality if you live in this country and have been graciously given democracy and freedom, I don’t know how you can possibly not have moral outrage and compassion for the people of North Korea who were blinded this man! Such moral outrage against such a man reveals that we as a nation believe there is a Standard universal for people to have the opportunity to experience freedom. But to us as Christians, if we believe in Jesus Christ as the only way, do we have the same moral outrage and compassion for all people blinded by Satan? Is the truth relative, so much so that we don’t want to offend anyone, even if spiritually and situationally they are living in bondage and tormented by the dictator of sin, Satan? Those of us who believe in Christ will have to answer to our attitude of heart in "calling evil good, and good evil" by what we don’t say and do for Christ sake and the gospel.

In His Love, Ld