Let's Get Moral!

I’ve been doing my best to articulate that morality consists of more than prescribed dos and don’ts. What I’ve learned from my study of Jesus is that identical behaviors can be moral or immoral depending upon their motivation. My study of psychology and the behavioral sciences has left me with a Freudian bent, particularly with regard to the role of human sexuality and its influence upon our motives. Sexual intercourse can be for the purpose of nothing more than satisfying selfish lust, or it can be a sacred experience that literally draws the participants into holy communion with the Higher Power. The former I would consider immoral, the latter moral, but outwardly it is the same act. This may seem an argument for relativistic or situational morality, but unlike ethicality—which deals with human conventions and agreements—for which such terms appropriately apply, the connection or disconnection with One doesn’t leave as much wiggle room. It also transcends human judgment in that it judges itself by its authenticity, something that mere mortals are not equipped to do. So, it stands to reason that we humans have leaned heavily in the direction of legality and ethicality where we get to make up the rules to use for or against one another because such allows us to be “in control.” Jesus proclaimed that whatever we gain by serving ourselves is lost to our failure to comprehend that true power comes from serving God (which ultimately results in an unselfish benefit to us).