I found this shocking video over at Wise Bread. The show is “The Moment of Truth, a game show in which contestants can win up to $500,000 if they answer correctly—according to a polygraph test—a total of 21 probing personal questions.”
What interested me most was not that these people were willing to be publicly interrogated and to expose their most intimate secrets on television for money, but the last question, her answer, and the polygraph response.
The biggest sin, these days, seems to be failing to do what we want to do. Don’t we owe it to ourselves to be happy?
We allow our impulses to rule us because we’ve “risen above” old fashioned ideas like morality and keeping our vows. We tell ourselves that doing “the right thing” means being “honest enough” to do what we want – because to want something and not get it would make us unhappy… and if we were unhappy, that would cause our spouse to be unhappy… so, really, we’re doing them a favor, aren’t we?
We’re a nation of two year olds, emotionally. We’re just better at rationalizing it than they are. But deep inside, we know it’s all a lie. We know we’re wrong. At some point in our existence, the feel-good pop psychology and rationalizations can’t prop us up anymore. We come face to face with our sin and our Savior; hopefully before it’s too late. The bible says, “the heavens declare the glory of God.” At some level, we all know who He is, and we know what we are. That’s the moment of truth.
