The Law

People who don't know God personally tend to think that he made up the law to keep us from having fun. Actually, just the opposite is true. God gave us the law to protect us from things that we didn't even know could hurt us.

The Jews were given many laws when they were wandering in the wilderness after leaving Egypt. They were given dietary and sanitation laws hundreds of years before germs were discovered. The were told not to eat food that modern science has shown are more likely to have deadly germs in them. They were told to isolate people with communicable diseases so they wouldn't spread. They were told not to touch the dead to keep from spreading disease. They were told to bury human waste instead of leaving it in the street like everyone else. All of these laws were obviously to protect them, many of these laws are why the Jewish people are alive today and not destroyed when plagues ripped through Europe. Their laws protected them.

Why do we think that the other laws are to hurt us. God's laws against fornication(unmarried sex), theft, homosexuality, bestiality, adultery, murder, fraud, etc are all for our benefit. If we will do things his way our life will work out better and we will be happied. How many lives have been hurt by these sins, but yet we try to say murder, adultery, theft and fraud are wrong, but fornication and homosexuality are okay. We can argue all day about why God says they are wrong, but it comes down to he knows more than we do about the world; after all, he created it.

I wish people could understand God's heart. He wants to protect us and help us live the good life, but he won't force it upon us. He gives us a choice, but we have to live with the consequences of the choices. Sure he could have forced us to choose right, but then it wouldn't have really been a choice.

Freedom is the right to make wrong decisions. But the right ones always work out better.