The Way or Their Way

Good n' cold morning! Last night I watched a documentary on a different way of living. Curious, I watched for signs that this was not in agreement with the biblical text. They opened with a still of the Golden Gate Bridge, uh oh... Yes, the 'new' way went downhill from there, starting with that word, evolve, and going on into nudity, sex, and all the very things that Paul found in the worship of various sects around the Roman Empire, and that God condemned in the Ba'al and Ashtoreth worship the Israelites liked to stray into in olden times. Nothing new about this way, humans have gravitated to it since Adam and Eve disobeyed God. The sex thing went on until the bombshell dropped, the guru stated, "You are God!"

How our Adversary must laugh at these 'new' things that come around again and again. God's laws are beautiful and they give us the way to live in love of one another. Jesus said to love your neighbor as yourself. How does one start that? Look at the Ten Commandments: don't covet what they have, don't lust after his/her spouse, don't steal the neighbor's nice lawnmower, and so on. Then, we do to the neighbor as we would have them do to or for us. When the neighbor is ill, we take comfort to him. The commandments tell us how to avoid hurting, but we take the next step into helping. No doubt many a Pharisee avoided the 'Don'ts' of the Law by avoiding neighbors entirely, but Jesus called us a bit further than that.

Of course, the Devil would be delighted for us to believe that we are God, or God is a myth, or whatever as long as we don't believe the truth, or better still, in the Truth. Jesus made it quite clear that He was God in human form, and that He was here to save us. Now, if I was God, then I wouldn't need saving or a Savior. Obviously their way and the Way of John 14:6 cannot coexist. One or the other will stand alone at the end. The choice is the same as it has been for many a year.

Let us choose once more the Way, the Truth, and the Life,
Bucky