Broken Offerings-October 18, 2012 (Psalm 4:5)

Author: Andrew Comiskey
October 18, 2012
‘Offer right sacrifices, and trust in the Lord.’ (PS 4:5)

Never before have I witnessed such an escalation of sexual and relational sin.

Pretty good marriages cooling into divorce, cohabitation as a matter of course, guys joking over the porn addictions they share: in the dirty mix, homosexual practice seems as natural as the weather.

What breaks me is not the human tendency to settle for less. Each of us is subject to sin’s gravitational pull. The hard truth that should propel our prayers is that the church of Jesus Christ is helping us ‘settle.’ Diseased by her drive to make church easy, she has exchanged the call to repent with the call to relent to sin.

Of course Jesus came to dwell with sinners. But He did so to rouse and raise them from what was killing them. Today’s church may be more inclined to support us in our sin, killing us softly.

How else do you explain the biggest evangelical church in Kansas City going soft on premarital sex or another one advocating for gay couples or the Cardinal who blessed the election of a ‘married’ gay man to the parish council? (In a telling twist, the conservative who most protested the gay man was silenced by the exposure of his own adulterous affair.)

If the salt loses its savor, it is good for nothing. If the Church loses vision of what humanity can be, then the citizens of the earth have no hope.

Adulterous David got low. His offering to God was a broken heart. ‘The sacrifices of God area broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.’ (PS 51:17)

Hear our prayer, O God. Forgive us, Your Church, for settling. We are Your body and we have not loved others according to Your headship. Have mercy on us. Our hope is in You.
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