Warning signs are everywhere you look. It is up to each individual whether they choose to obey the signs or risk getting caught by the authorities or worse yet, being injured or killed, because of noncompliant behavior.
Amusement parks have disclaimer signs stating Ride at Your Own Risk. Other signs I’ve seen are, Enter at Your Own Risk; Do Not Enter; Wrong Way; Yield; Keep Out; No Trespassing and Roadwork Ahead, to name a few.
The word Defy in the title may sound somewhat neurotic, but to defy the biggest warning of all is like taking one’s life into their own hands. This warning is Thou Shalt Not! These three words are more than obsessive, they are compelling, especially when they are attached to The Ten Commandments.
The risk of disobeying The Ten Commandments is twofold…spiritual and physical. The Commandments are given to protect, not to condemn or exert authority. God cares what happens to mankind, so He gave Moses The Ten Commandments to shield and safeguard God’s prize design—humanity. He does not want us to suffer the consequences of our actions.
Sir Isaac Newton was a renowned physicist that conveyed Newton’s Laws of Motion. His theory stated that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you; Seek and you shall find; Knock and it shall be opened; A kind answer turns away wrath, are positive perspectives pertaining to this law.
A person is taking matters into their own hands when they disobey the laws of the land and God’s laws. They enter a place of no return, having to answer for their blindness of selective vision or deliberately closing their eyes to what is being expected of them to do or not to do.
The old saying, “Pay the Piper” is bearing the consequences, sooner or later, for something that was enjoyed. Let us hope that this is not the negative aspect or penalties of doing something wrong.
Abstaining from wrongdoing of any kind, whether thought or deed, is to a person’s benefit, not to their downfall. Whether in Jesus’ day when He walked the earth, or today, rules are rules, and they should be taken seriously and always applied. There is no getting around the fact that wrong is wrong, and evil is evil, anyway you look at it. There are no in-betweens where laws are concerned.
Signs around us give fair warning for our protection and other’s wellbeing. The Bible also gives fair warning that entertaining sin is done entirely at a person’s own risk. God does not make anyone serve Him. He gives mankind the freedom and discretion to choose right from wrong. We are freewill moral agents to decide, for ourselves, what road we will travel…the straight and narrow path that leads to heaven or the wide road to destruction.
Newton’s Laws of Motion go hand in hand with the following scripture that is found in the Book of Galatians.
(Galatians 6:7,8) “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” Vs. 8 “For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.”
A person living on the edge and hoping that their frivolous life does not catch up with them, while sinning against God, will one day bring judgment in the courts of the land and the spiritual realm. There is a payment due at some point because they defied laws at their own risk. It does not pay to disobey rules that have been established to improve the quality of physical, everyday living, and the spiritual dominion.
Substance abuse, regarding drugs and alcohol, damage body organs and brain cells. Tobacco usage, of any kind, may cause cancer, while sexual promiscuity can bring to bear Sexually Transmitted Diseases of all kinds, when rules are disobeyed.
When we heed the signs and restrain ourselves from entering wrongdoing, risk is nullified. We walk in peace and experience abundant living that God desires for us.
Willfully surrendering to sin, at one’s own risk, is like running into a burning building without protective clothing or jumping off a cliff with an umbrella…the result is the same—injury or death. These examples are dealing with the physical aspect of poor judgment. The spirit world is something of another matter.
Jesus did everything in His power to make a way for people to not have to suffer the consequences of sinning. He paid the full price for the sins of mankind by suffering death on the cross to make a way for you and me to walk in victory and enter heaven after our journey on earth is over.
Though we sin and come short of the glory of God, Jesus defied death and arose the third day so that we would read the sign, “I Love You.” He desires a relationship with us.
No-one is perfect. We have all transgressed the laws of God and need a Savior to put us on the straight and narrow path to righteousness and take us off the wide road to destruction.
(Romans 3:23) “…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…”
Though we have sinned, God forgives sin when we confess them. We need to ask Jesus into our heart and experience newness of life. This event is called, the new birth—being born again. It is a spiritual awakening of new beginnings.
(2 Corinthians 5:17) “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
Nothing in this world, and no-one except Jesus Christ, can bring satisfaction that lasts. All is sinking sand. The Lord is the unmovable, solid rock—the firm foundation and cornerstone of a victorious life that is built upon the attributes of Almighty God.
Only the Lord can satisfy the deep longing in the soul of a wayfarer that is wandering aimlessly without direction, looking for peace.
Sin is momentary pleasure that lasts for a short season, and then one day the reality of sin kicks back, much like Newton’s Laws of Motion. The person reaps what they have sewn.
The choice is ours to make. Not only will we be grateful on earth that we chose Jesus, but the second part of God’s blessing comes when we see Him face to face in heaven. Praise God!
Written by,
Papa Boyd
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