What?
I’ll say it again…life is about rules.
There are rules to a football game, rules to a job or you’ll be fired, rules in school, rules for driving.
We follow these rules because of our wants and desires. Living Holy has rules too. These rules aren’t to make you unhappy but to help aide you in the quest for holiness. You have choices and are free to make them. Standards aren’t to take freedom from you but help you live free.
For example. I am 39 years old and I have 3 teenagers. I see the stage they are in, each one of them, and remember that age. I remember thinking almost exactly like my oldest daughter, so when I see her going down the road I went, I want to tell you the shortcut because I know it now. That way she won’t have to take the long route. Well, that is how it is with God’s standards. He see’s the big picture of our life and the Word is our road map. If we decide not to be obedient and follow the directions, then we will be on some bumpy ground.
Like my daughter hearing my advice to make life easier for her, she wants to be in control of her choices. It’s hard to give up control and stay on the right path. This control is really a false sense. We aren’t in control of our life, really. We just choose which road to take when we are given a choice. In a sense we are in control of our choices. We really aren’t free, we have just been told over and over again that we are. I think of the movie, “He’s Just Not that into You” when at the beginning of the movie it shows that a little girl is treated really badly by a boy she was being nice to. She runs to her mom and tells her through her tears that she is hurt. The mom then tells the little girl that the boy was mean to her because he likes her. What did that teach that little girl? That whenever a man is mean to her, that means he likes her. When we are told things we tend to believe it. Being free without Christ is one of them.
We are all in bondage until we give our life to Christ.
Maybe we have lost faith? Faith in putting ourselves in the hands of our Creator. If this is the case, we become our own God. Someone that knows better. Why else wouldn’t we put our faith and trust in Christ? We think we can do better because we don’t have faith.
Forget that a certain religion has standards. This is YOUR life! To live holy, what standards must there be to help YOU?
What is faith? Read Hebrews 11.
Something to meditate on…
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