Humanism has become the predominant worldview of the western world, and essentially this view says that the natural world, what we see is all that there is and that human beings are able and responsible to live ethically and to seek personal and collective flourishing. Now, one of the underlying assumptions of this view is that humanity is basically good. A humanist philosophy and assumptions are kind of like background music steadily, drumming a beat into our lives through the values we see portrayed in media. The way news is framed, the structure and messaging of our education systems and on and on and on and so even believers in Jesus are subtly influenced.
We might affirm that people are inherently sinful, but in practice we trust human ability to solve problems or to do the right thing most of the time or create a better world, and sometimes this trust even extends to ourselves. We see ourselves as essentially moral, especially when we compare ourselves to “bad people'', and we unwittingly forget that it's Christ, who makes us righteous self-righteousness, can so easily set in. Now wisdom and folly are set as polar opposites throughout wisdom literature and while we may be well acquainted with the message that choosing wickedness is folly. Ecclesiastes 7 declares that overinflating and overreliance on our own righteousness is just as destructive
and then verse 20 arrives as the kicker. No one, not even those who appear righteous is without sin.
So a foundation of self-righteousness will always crumble. What the author didn't see though, was that there was one to come, who would be fully righteous and he shares his righteousness with all who trust in him so to tone down the humanist messaging, tempting us to trust ourselves. We can turn up the volume on the truth by hiding scripture in our hearts and setting it before our eyes. So let's do whatever it takes to help us look to Jesus in whose righteousness alone we can trust.
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