What does Weiner, Sheen, and Woods have in common with you and I? Not the riches and fame, nor the national news coverage. Commonly, we all share a fallen, contemptuous and destructive mentality. It's called the reprobate mind and living in Adam's fallen world guarantees its emergence and growth. All of us have it, but thanks to God we can be regularly treated for it.
The reprobate is your other you. Not the you that sits in service singing sweet hymns to Jesus, ready to celebrate the preaching of the Word. Not the you that is geared up to go to work on time and make a great day of it with a smile on your face and good tidings on your lips. Not the you who strives for purity and good living, upholding truth, love and morality. The other you! The 'stinking thinking' you. The 'I can't believe I said/did that' you. It's the devil on your left shoulder, countering the angel on your right. It is a most inconsistent, consequential and embarrassing malady that each man and woman suffers with.
This is what Paul speaks of in Romans 7 - "The good that I would I do not and the evil that I would not that I do." "Oh wretched man that I am, who shall save me from the body of this death." It is the war of the 'I's. There was an inner struggle in Paul, Judas, David, Moses, and every hero and villain of Scripture. Even Jesus! But the Lord did not sin.
That's the key by the way. The Spirit of God, who leads us in the lifestyle of Jesus, is the only answer for our reprobate tendencies. He is the only treatment that can deliver us from our contrary ways. Christians still have a reprobate, carnal, filthy mind - but we also have the mind of God dwelling within. He gives us a new way, better options and urges us away from our reprobate. He's our life coach, resident therapist and a solid corner man. "There is therefore now, no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit (Rom. 8:1)."
Weiner, Woods, Sheen you and I have the same disease! But thanks be to God that the Spirit makes a difference. When life caves in on any of us, we should not be proud and condemning, but humble and prayerful, because we know full well, we are just as sick. It is not that we are better, but that we have better treatment.
