Flirtin’ With Disaster

When calamities come, people often think of them as flukes.  Bad luck.  This is a defense mechanism, but it is also often true.  The important thing is that it not become our fallback position.  To never assume responsibility may be comfortable, but it is also unrealistic and temporary in duration.  Much of the time, there is a direct correlation between our actions and our outcomes.  In our efforts not to further burden hurting people, we may have neglected the voice of realism.  This may be a disservice to them.

We need to learn to connect the dots.  There are some ways of living that lead to relatively
trouble-free lives and some that gender drama.  Rain falls on everyone, but people should not invite disaster.  And we should not normalize everything in the name of inoffensiveness.  There are better ways of eating, more admirable habits and higher values.  In the name of equality, we have forgotten to aspire to excellence.  Condemnation is not necessarily a part of challenge, and people do better with goals and dreams of improvement.

Society today has legitimized behavior that is legal with no concern for whether it is admirable.  This is seen in the nauseating way people demand their rights and assume that no degree of bad behavior should incur any consequence.  They don’t have a Good Girls’ Club.  There are a great many things people have the right to do, but that does not mean they ought to do them.  Perhaps it is not the job of our legal system to condone or condemn everything, but legality and legitimacy no longer walk hand-in-hand.  God will have something to say about that.

The Bible never pictures people without problems, but it does give cautionary tales of many who have flaunted the laws of God.  It encourages us to ethical living beyond the expectations of society by concerning ourselves with the Sovereign.  John the Baptist told Herod that his adulterous relationship was “not lawful.” Now, whose law was he talking about?  John was appealing to the laws of God that supersede the changeable laws of man.  God is patient with us, but He is also meticulously recording our deeds of what sort they are. 

One day, we will all understand the true nature of our lives.  The repentant thief on the cross pled with the other, “We are getting what our deeds deserve.” That will be true for you…and me.  In our remaining days, perhaps we should concern ourselves with higher virtues and not the minimum daily allowance.  We have played fast and loose for too long.  Jonathan Edwards read, “In due time, their foot will slip.” I have read those words, too.  We can do better.  We can walk, then run, then fly.  Connect the dots.  You’ll get the picture.

Sterl

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