A Tolerance for Evil- 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! There are those who are trying to tell us what we know is evil is good and what we know is good is evil. Sometimes they do it openly but more often than not they do it secretly, slowly, politely, and before you know it, we develop a tolerance for evil. We begin to accept as good what once we believed was evil. Once this tolerance for evil becomes embedded in our personal lives or our society, then we become the evil that we used to hate. We no longer can distinguish between good and evil. You may think that it could never happen to you, but it happened to the religious leaders of Jesus' day! Repeatedly they tried to find reasons to have Jesus arrested and killed and He confronted them: "You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires" (John 8:44). This tolerance for evil happens "because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false" (II Thessalonians 2:10-11). Develop a love for the Truth you won't develop a tolerance for evil.