I am a huge Everybody Loves Raymond Fan. The conversations and fights between Ray and Deborah (Patricia Heton's stage name) are very reflective of my marital experience. One thing about the characters of Ray and Deb is they are horrible parents, and Ray is a horrible role model for biblical manhood and fatherhood. this blog isn't about that thought, that's for another time.
We were watching an episode tonight (I love me some DVR) and it involved Ray's brother Robert and Robert's fiance Amy. Amy's parents are devout religious people, but legalistic and judgmental, and they disapprove of Amy's impending marriage to Robert. In the scene where Amy stands up to her parents about her decision she reveals that Robert stays the night many times and implies that they have sex. Then she says this, "I have decided that it is not a sin." She doesn't get to make that decision. God has decided what is right and wrong and we must decide to accept it or reject it. Amy's decision does nothing but try to justify her actions. I wonder how many time we do this only we don't say it out loud. We decide that gossiping isn't a sin, or lying a little, or over eating, lusting after someone other than our spouse, or simply making God sit in the visitor bleachers in the game of our life.
We may not say but do we do live it.
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