We always hear about "why bad things happen to good people?" but rarely do we hear about what happens when 'good people' choose to do 'bad things'. So I thought I'd address THAT phenomenon.
Well let me first start by saying NO ONE IS GOOD! Not what you wanted to hear?
"No one is good, no- not one!" ~Romans 3:12
So since no one is considered 'good', technically we are people who crave what is bad for us anyways. Ok, now that that has been established we can move on to how people handle the natural things they want to do.
Two general responses normally arise when people make choices against their better judgement:
*Condemnation
and
*Conviction
If a person is driving along and realizes they passed up their designation, they can make one of two choices. They could pull over, stop, turn the car off and give up OR they could turn around and head in the correct direction of their designation. THAT is the difference between Condemning yourself for the choice made or accepting Conviction.
Condemnation is an element of our conscience and is spiritual in that the enemy uses it to torment us into a pit of destruction. We inevitably psych ourselves into believing the worse about ourselves until our thoughts render us incapable.
Conviction is an element of our conscience and for those who are Believers ("Good" because of Christ, not within ourselves), also a component of and benefit from our Helper (the Spirit of God who resides inside us. It too is spiritual in that He serves to lovingly bring up our mistake and reminds us of forgiveness that is readily available along with directions on how to avoid the same mistake and a desire to turn our behavior around.
Both condemnation and conviction is susceptible for the Believer, but Condemnation is NOT the end to which we should be drawn (Romans 8:1 "Now, there is therefore NO condemnation for THOSE who are IN Christ Jesus").
When you do bad things...which road do you tend to take?
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