| | Is God like government? Are his laws as arbitrary and fickle as the
government's? You would say NO, but most people behave as if it is YES.
The law says the speed limit is 40 miles per hour, but we push it a
bit. 45 is OK, isn't it? Business write-offs? Most anything that might
work is made to work. Rules in schools (hey I'm a poet) are the most
unenforced and unenforceable, relying as they do on the co-operation of
children who have NOTHING to fear. What we do in the dark, what
government can't see, we try to get away with constantly.
What is the purpose of government laws? If you said "to restrain evil,"
I would say you are correct. Gov't doesn't try to get us to do good.
That in itself is a good thing. Would you want gov't defining what is
"good"? Given today's liberal abortion laws, I would say "Absolutely
not!"
But God's laws? Yes, for the most part, the Big 10 do restrain evil,
but to what end? So that we might have life, an abundant life. Read the
Sermon on the Mount which includes the beautiful Beatitudes in Matthew
chapters 5-7. These are lofty goals for living a very good life.
So, why do we treat God's laws as if they were gov't laws, written by
some ignorant bureaucrat, out for his own aggrandizment, trying to
control an evil population? God's laws are for our good. We ought not
try to skirt them, get around them, or rationalize them, as we are only
hurting ourselves and our society.
One of the many reasons I believe that the Catholic Church is the
church founded in the beginning by Jesus Christ is its unwavering
stance on these particular moral evils: contraception, abortion, and
divorce. In 1930, EVERY Christian church declared these behaviors to be
evil. Today, to the best of my knowledge, every church except the
Catholic Church has folded on one or more of these issues. Does truth
change? Do God's laws change?
If a cop's not in sight, you can get away with going 45 in a 40, but
you are always in God's sight and His laws are good and right and
life-giving. You do yourself no good to disobey Him. Give thanks that
He cares so much for us that He has given us guidelines that lead to an
abundant life.
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