Why…
- throw trash out the window?
- steal from another?
- justify greed?
- rationalize selfishness?
Because we have a choice and we choose to be selfish, plain and simple. It’s been this way since the fall of man when we felt there was more to be given than what God gave us. I can (and do) get very, very upset when I see someone throwing trash on the ground like the Earth is their personal trash bin or when I read about a government who takes budget money set aside for teachers and emergency needs and gives it to their government officials in order for them to pay their taxes or a nation who gets angry over an injustice (rightly so) but then says we can do whatever it is we need to do to retaliate and create our own sense of justice or seeing pastors driving expensive cars yet starving the children they are supposed to be loving and taking care of.
Those make me angry but I need to turn the lens around and take a look at myself before sitting atop my pedestal and judging. I’m guilty and God works on me alone and He works on you alone but if each of us would listen to His wisdom and guidance on how to live, the world could be a different place. If we each “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” and “love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22) these issues would be non-issues and I wouldn’t be asking “why?”