When you browse social media, you are flooded with various viewpoints and beliefs. Some people believe in evolution, some in God, others in alien visitations and the list goes on and on.

I find the belief in evolution to be amusing at best – what isn’t explained by evolution (as it was sold to me as a child) is the design of the human conscience.

When you were young and lied to your mother, you got this feeling deep inside, knowing for a fact that what you just did was wrong. I felt that, as I’m sure you all have… so what was that? If I am nothing more than a biological animal, why would I feel convicted that I lied to my mom? What biological imperative is broken by a simple white lie?

Another question is why did I lie at all… if my mother loves me and trusts me – what compelled me to lie in the first place? Sure, I don’t want to disappoint her but isn’t lying to her even more disappointing? An even higher break in a trust relationship…

The terrible explanation is that each of us without Christ is desperately wicked, we put on this performative show to others that we try to look good, smell good, dress well, wear the right cologne or perfume, dress in a specific archetype, blue jeans, bubbly winter jacket, dark boots, and cool blue or green knitted toque and mitts, scarf around the neck – use a toothpick to make sure our teeth are clean… tell ourselves that we are not really bad people and we can live our sweet little lives as we see fit… I mean it sounds OK right? But what does your heart look like in comparison? That’s what God see’s – the motives of the heart.

When I worked at Hanover School Division, I heard a teacher ask in the lunchroom, “If I show you a good man, why shouldn’t he go to heaven, why isn’t that good enough”… its a fair question. But truly, none of us are good.. I’m certainly not good – there is nobody who is truly good.

The creation of humans as written in the bible is the real explanation of why we are all here. It accounts for our conscience – God has stamped his eternal moral code as a compass on our hearts, pointing and reminding us that he is our true North… his moral directives of righteousness, justice, and morality.

If all we are were “meat machines” created by a process called evolution, we would have no soul, there would be no conscience – why would there be, it’s unnecessary… there also would be no real morality – morality would just be a slider of things we currently find acceptable or not acceptable – subject to change at any time, and if that were true, then why should I have to accept the moral structure that you are trying to superimpose on me… each one of us could do what we want and moral constraints be damned, no behavior would be wrong or right, it would just be an action, but that’s not how we live, that is not what our hearts are telling us.

What is important that each of us makes a personal decision to follow him.. we’re not perfect, we are going to sin, and we are going to make mistakes but each of us need to ask his forgiveness and strive to seek his will.

If you are currently involved in a sinful lifestyle, you need to stop it, put an end to it. I’m a sinner as well, every Christian stumbles, sometime we get pulled away for a season in life.. but we don’t reject God and throw our Christian walk away and renounce our faith, that is something else entirely.

I struggle with sin just like each of you.. but we have to acknowledge God and let him make the necessary changes in our life in order to grow our faith. We have to overcome our nature, that is the real struggle.. our bodies, our flesh will always have a bend towards sin; but then we will also always feel dirty, unfulfilled, and chasing the things of this world. We can be clean and renewed in Christ, all our sin washed away, now that is finally something worth chasing.

Jason