Irony In Moral Advice

"They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved." (I Peter 2: 19 ESV)

There is so much irony among those people who tell others how to live when they themselves don't live right. That is seen in the above verse of the apostle Peter. Imagine that! A slave promising to give freedom! A drug addict telling us about how to have self control! A man who has been divorced twelve times giving advice on how to have a lasting happy marriage! Preachers who talk about the need of holiness and yet who get rich preaching and who live ungodly lives clandestinely are cases of situational irony and hypocrisy. Lots of those kinds of preachers around today. 

Today, on the political left, now led by perverts and the ungodly (for the most part), we hear them tell us, or shall we say, dictate to us, how to live our lives, when they don't know how to run their own lives. It reminds me of a song I heard when a teenager, from the song "Sunshine" by Jonathan Edwards, a top hit from 1971, with these lines:

I don't feel much like dancing 

Some man's gone, he's tried to run my life 

Don't know what he's asking

But he can't even run his own life 

I'll be damned if he'll run mine, Sunshine (repeated)

By "some man" we can well mean "liberal person," which in today's political speech denotes someone who is for promoting all kinds of sexual perversions and sin, for commanding us to live by their rules or die (which is what Communists, Fascists, and other authoritarian regimes, dictators and tyrants, do), to call white black, and black white, and call evil good, and call women men and men women, etc. Another example of irony from the ungodly on the political left is the fact that what labels they put on others, with whom they disagree, are more fitting for themselves; such labels as racist, fascist, cult follower, etc. 

Yet, the irony is apparent in that the rich and powerful elites, who are often denouncing Christians and the ten commandments, do not live fuller and richer lives than poor Christians, who know inner peace and contentment, and who attempt to live godly and moral lives. 

Of course, it is not only innocent irony we are talking about, but irony that is seen in hypocrisy. And, there is plenty of that on the part of ungodly who tell us how to live, how to eat, drink, and be merry. 

"How blessed is the person, 

who does not take the advice of the wicked, 

who does not stand on the path with sinners, 

and who does not sit in the seat of mockers." 

(Psalm 1: 1)