What is Your Moral Compass?

         Vic Eliason of VCY America (VCYAmerica.org) often asks callers to his Crosstalk program (CrossTalkAmerica.com) a probing question:  “What is your moral compass?”  He asks the question to callers who are confused about basic concepts of right and wrong, and inevitably, these confused callers cannot answer.  Often they do not understand the question, and if they do understand it, have never before considered it.  Morality, to them, and to many people today, seems to be a thing that is ever-evolving, and relative to each individual. 

   The Bible speaks of this in Isaiah 5:21,  “Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.”  Prior to this statement, Isaiah writes, “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.”  It is a picture of a world devoid of morality, a world turned upside down, where confusion reigns and the concept of right and wrong is abstract and irrevelant.  It is a picture of our world, in this generation.

   The questions that have thrown our culture into turmoil today seem so basic and so simple, it is hard to believe we are even debating them.  Questions like, “what is the definition of marriage and family?”  “Are children a blessing, or a punishment?&rdqu ...