Bible
I have
always been befuddled by some who hold to those standards of righteousness that
oppose each other. Let me explain using
an article written by Haddon Robinson.
Years
ago Joe Bayly, the late Eternity
magazine columnist, visited some German Christians who had been devoted
soldiers in the German army during World War II. Two of them had been put up for promotion to
become second lieutenants in the Nazi army.
The commandant told them he would approve the promotion on one
condition: that they join the Officers’ Club.
Being a member of the club would require them to attend some weekend
dances. These young men believed that
dancing was wrong because it could lead to immorality. Because of their convictions, they turned
down the promotion.
Later
in their military careers these same men were assigned to the death camps where
thousands of Jews were stuffed into ovens and killed. Even though they did not directly participate
in the slaughter, they knew what was going on.
Yet they never voiced any protest.
When
Joe Bayly talked to them many years after the war, they looked back on their
experience with no regrets, convinced that they had made the right
decision. For them, not conforming to
social pressure and refusing to dance was an act of righteousness. And conforming to patriotic mass murder and
remaining silent while thousands of Jews burned in ovens left them with no
feelings of unrighteousness.
✞ Being righteous is hard; being consistently righteous is harder.
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