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Advice & Entertainment September 14, 2008  RSS feed

Breaking a law of God

MINISTER'S MOMENT
CHARLOTTE AUSTIN

What happens when we break a law of God? Is the law damaged? Does it chip, crack, bend, or shatter? Does it suddenly cease to operate?

Consider for example, a person who tries to break the law of gravity. A deluded person might jump from a second-story balcony convinced that he can fly. But in violating the law of nature, he himself is broken. The law remains untouched.

The same is true of the moral law of God. Sometimes we talk about breaking it as if the law itself suffers due to our action. But the law of God is not broken. We are. We damage our health. We damage our relationships. We damage our reputations. We damage our spiritual sensitivity. We damage our future.

As a result, we are in constant need of repair, which we receive from the very One whose law we have broken. And for this we have every reason to thank God continually for His mercy, forgiveness, peace, and patience.

Lord, make us more aware of the eventual and inevitable results of our sins.

May we realize that by violating your spiritual laws, we damage ourselves

and the ones we love. Relieve us of our misplaced thinking that tells us that

because the consequences are not always immediately evident, there are none.

Thank you for loving us. In Our Savior's Name, Amen.
Rev. Charlotte Austin
McCary's Chapel
United Methodist Church


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