Considering the headlines in recent times, it's not surprising that people are yearning for those in government, business—and, in fact, all walks of life—to follow higher ethical standards.
Is doing so just a matter of human striving to be and do better, to stick more firmly to the right and be more alert and prompt in spurning the wrong? Of course, such striving is valuable, but without a perception of the divine reality underlying our efforts, we may find ourselves wanting to do right but not always achieving it. Rather like the predicament that the Apostle Paul faced when he wrote plaintively. "The good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do." I'm sure most of us have felt that way.
But then Paul realizes that "if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me." In despair he reaches out for an answer: "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord." And he declares further, "... the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." Rom. 7:19, 20, 24, 25; 8:2.
