The American Dream is to own our own home, build our own business, and to stand on our own two feet.
Does it matter how we get there? Does the end justify the means?
For example, an inner city youth wants to help out those in similar situations. So, he grows up, sells drugs in a distant country, and returns home, using the money to build inner city youth facilities for the destitute poor.
Doesn’t make sense, does it?
Or what about the policeman who “knows” illegal activity surrounds a local business, but he can’t get a solid lead. Wiretapping and searching without a court order? It may indeed find evidence of guilt, but it is not admissible in court. The guilty will walk free.
What about our heavenly goal? Does the end justify the means? By that, is it worth whatever it takes to get the job done, even if the cost is unfair, cruel, and oversteps all the bounds of convention?
1 Peter 4:19 tells us to “let them who suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful creator.”
Is it a fair trade that we must suffer for our faith? Is reaching the end goal worth the price we pay along the way?
In the secular world, we readily admit that using funds from illegal activities to do good works does not justify the illegal activity. In the same way, we cannot circumvent privacy laws to catch criminals, even if we are certain they are guilty. The end does not justify the means.
However, in a spiritual context, reaching heaven is worth everything it costs. In the end, it doesn’t matter the trials and tribulations we’ve encountered in this life. Our goal is worth it a million times over.
If we trade everything for the cross, the end has justified everything, and it will be worth it.
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