Could we live
without any laws? Could even two people
live together without having agreed upon ways of behavior? No.
Every society has it's laws whether they are called laws or not, they
exist. There are standards, there are rules, there are the ways of things that
must be adhered to in every single relationship. Put just two people together to live with
each other for a year and see how long it takes for them to have agreed upon
behaviors assigned.
To live means to
have to engage in activities of living.
You don't live unless you engage in the activities of living in one way
or another. There are many people kept alive today by people using artificial
means to enact those activities of living that they cannot do for themselves.
The necessary
activities of living- eating, drinking, sleeping, elimination.
We eat, drink,
sleep, eliminate waste from our body or we die.
When we get together
with others to live we all have our own ways of doing these things. How awful it would be if there were two
people living together where one insisted upon being awake and active to the
point of keeping the other from sleeping
when they desired to sleep. What if one
ate all the food for the day without allowing the other any? What if one used
up all the water for the day? What if one decided they could eliminate their
waste anywhere they desired? Would this
result in a happy living environment? Absolutely not. I'm talking about a
situation where people are unable to NOT live together.
As soon as people
start living with each other their behaviors have to be amended to an agreed
upon way of life. When this happens
rules are formed, spoken or unspoken.
Throughout our world
every society has formed their own rules.
Where a society form rules that are in opposition to another's often
there is a push to get the societies to form basic rules of humanity. We have
the united nations in our world that is supposed to be a worldwide rule maker
deeming what is and what isn't an acceptable society. We go to war to correct societies that live
in opposition to those universal rules. We want everyone alive to have the
right to a peaceful way of living. We desire worldwide peace, there is a fight
for this elusive thing.
We live in such
great opposition to one another on grand scales- country wide scales and
individual- much smaller scales. There
will NEVER be worldwide peace as long as we are flawed human beings prone to
non-peaceful acts. And as soon as someone tries to FORCE peace they are
committing an action contrary to peace.
People who believe
that the world will one day straighten itself out are deluding themselves. The
natures of flesh we are born with prevents world wide peace.
It is OVERCOMING
those natural flesh tendencies through JESUS CHRIST that is necessary.
We can't overcome
them on our own, but with Christ we can. We must put ourselves in HIS hands
daily, hourly, minutely, unendingly. We
must recognize our eternal, infinite need of HIM to be our righteousness.
We are NOT called to
take our evil flesh natures and call them good.
I am NOT called to
take my selfishness and justify it so I can continue being selfish. I am not
called to excuse away my selfishness or any other sinful way in myself, but I
am called to confess it and forsake it on a daily, hourly, infinite basis. When I succumb to my flesh nature I must
CONFESS and once again forsake. And if this seems like an endless cycle of sin,
confess, forsake, sin, confess, forsake that's because it has to be until my
Savior seals me as His. Forever we are dependent upon our Savior. Forever we
must live fighting the WAR against sinning without calling sin good and
therefore giving up the war. There is NO
easy way out of this, not one single easy way out. It's a FIGHT, your life is a FIGHT.
If people get
together and decide they no longer want to fight against certain sins, that is
their right, I can't stop them. If whole societies get together and make a
universal sin no longer sin, I can't stop them.
Just because they've done that doesn't mean that sin no longer exists.
It just means the majority of the world has accepted the sin as being good and
they no longer will fight against it. They will label themselves enlightened
and pat themselves on the back. We were
warned this would happen. Sin would be call good and good things sin.
No, I can't stop
writing about this yet, it's heavy on my heart.
People want me to call evil good, and if I don't, I'm the evil one. This is what it has come to and I cannot call
evil good.
EVERY single one of
us fights our personal propensity towards various sinning, some of us have a
multitude of flesh weaknesses. We can sin in our minds without ever sinning
outwardly and it is STILL sin! We all have our battles to wage, there isn't a
single person alive who does not. My
battle might be easy to you, and yours easy to me. But we ALL have the battles to war with over
that which would keep us from accepting Christ as our Redeemer.
Your battle might be
in the newspaper headlines, mine hidden
where no one can see. Mine might be in
the headlines, while yours remains unseen.
Satan wants us all
equally and will fight for us in our personal ways. He has a personal battle
plan for every individual. Some people
are easily won, others will never be won and I PRAY to GOD I am NEVER won by
SATAN so that he determines my eternal death.
I pray I cling to Christ MY RIGHTEOUSNESS, never putting any hope or
trust in my own filthy rag righteousness.
Isa_64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all
our righteousnesses are as filthy rags
I have been wrong
about many things in my life, many, many things. I must confess I have called
various sins good and even tried to get others to do so and I can only beg for
forgiveness. Please….my Savior forgive me!
Christ followers
everywhere, be prepared to continue to live in a world where more and more evil
will be called good and you will be called hateful because you refuse to call
evil good.
This world will NOT
get easier for Christ followers.
May we only ever
follow Christ's TRUTHS and love HIM first and foremost, loving God the Father,
God the Son and God the Holy Spirit- these three Gods must be loved first and
then through their love we can LOVE ALL OTHERS, all while hating sin.
All in the name of
Jesus Christ my Lord, my Savior! My Redeemer! My Hope!
Amen.
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