{Monday, September 04, 2006
. Driving and Laws}
Over the last few weeks I have been taking practice lessons for my driving license. Many rules to the road to be learnt, driving techniques that must be used properly, and for the case of manual cars, which all students take, using the clutch properly. So it reminded me of an event a motivational speaker once mentioned: He was in the car about to take his driving test, and the instructor was beside him. The instructor told him that because he was the instructor, any order he asked would have to be obeyed. Nothing special the speaker thought, after all, that was the case for everything, you listen to your teacher. So he followed the main driving route, making detours and special turns when the intructor told him to. He then stopped at the red light at a junction and waited for it to turn green. The instructor then looked both ways and saw that no cars were crossing and told the speaker to drive across. The speaker was taken aback and said no, because cars were nearing the junction. The instructor told him to drive after the cars passed as there were no cars at all after the passing cars. He told the speaker that this was real world ethics and that he should learn it now, after all, he said, everybody did it. He continued to press the speaker to drive the car and eventually released the break and pressed the acceleration. The instructor quickly pressed the break in his car (training cars have breaks for the instructor to use... in case) and used his clipboard and hit the speaker's head hard saying that although he was the instructor and that the speaker should listen to him, the law states that you're not supposed to drive past a red light. And the law is above a person who does something or tells you to do something that is against the law. so law first, authorities (who follow the law anyway, or should) second.
This got me thinking about our life in Christ. How you do things you shouldn't be doing, following orders that are against the teachings of Christ and against the Law... the Ten Commandments in other words. The Devil tempts us, and although we know the Law, sometimes we still disobey. The Law was made for us to follow, to show us what kind of God we serve. One that does not like abominations and murder, one that wants us to love and worship Him all our lives, to give our lives as a living sacrifice and to listen to Him, as all He says is always good and pure, we have no worries. But thats where the Law comes in again. If someone says they feel God is telling them to do something contrary to Scripture, then obviously it's not from God. He would never contradict Himself and tell you to do something that is obviously bad. So we should think for ourselves and find out whether what we thought God said was really from Him.
We should follow the Law always, no matter what people say... because through the Law we have freedom. Now some people disagree and say that the Law tells you not to do this and that. But of course, if we continue to do the stuff the Law forbids, we'll be trapped in bondage, degrading ourselves... only when we stop and free ourselves from that are we truly free. The Law did not come to condemn men, to restrict us, but to lead to Jesus, to give us freedom. And that freedom, is gained when we are truly free of bondages.
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Over the last few weeks I have been taking practice lessons for my driving license. Many rules to the road to be learnt, driving techniques that must be used properly, and for the case of manual cars, which all students take, using the clutch properly. So it reminded me of an event a motivational speaker once mentioned: He was in the car about to take his driving test, and the instructor was beside him. The instructor told him that because he was the instructor, any order he asked would have to be obeyed. Nothing special the speaker thought, after all, that was the case for everything, you listen to your teacher. So he followed the main driving route, making detours and special turns when the intructor told him to. He then stopped at the red light at a junction and waited for it to turn green. The instructor then looked both ways and saw that no cars were crossing and told the speaker to drive across. The speaker was taken aback and said no, because cars were nearing the junction. The instructor told him to drive after the cars passed as there were no cars at all after the passing cars. He told the speaker that this was real world ethics and that he should learn it now, after all, he said, everybody did it. He continued to press the speaker to drive the car and eventually released the break and pressed the acceleration. The instructor quickly pressed the break in his car (training cars have breaks for the instructor to use... in case) and used his clipboard and hit the speaker's head hard saying that although he was the instructor and that the speaker should listen to him, the law states that you're not supposed to drive past a red light. And the law is above a person who does something or tells you to do something that is against the law. so law first, authorities (who follow the law anyway, or should) second.
This got me thinking about our life in Christ. How you do things you shouldn't be doing, following orders that are against the teachings of Christ and against the Law... the Ten Commandments in other words. The Devil tempts us, and although we know the Law, sometimes we still disobey. The Law was made for us to follow, to show us what kind of God we serve. One that does not like abominations and murder, one that wants us to love and worship Him all our lives, to give our lives as a living sacrifice and to listen to Him, as all He says is always good and pure, we have no worries. But thats where the Law comes in again. If someone says they feel God is telling them to do something contrary to Scripture, then obviously it's not from God. He would never contradict Himself and tell you to do something that is obviously bad. So we should think for ourselves and find out whether what we thought God said was really from Him.
We should follow the Law always, no matter what people say... because through the Law we have freedom. Now some people disagree and say that the Law tells you not to do this and that. But of course, if we continue to do the stuff the Law forbids, we'll be trapped in bondage, degrading ourselves... only when we stop and free ourselves from that are we truly free. The Law did not come to condemn men, to restrict us, but to lead to Jesus, to give us freedom. And that freedom, is gained when we are truly free of bondages.
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