Friday 8 Jun 2018

June 8: Romans 3:5-8

Key Verse: Romans 3:7
Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?”

Devotion:
The law is the law… No matter how many ways we try to look at it or try to justify other things, the law is the law. If we try to convince people otherwise, then we will eventually be found out. We like to bend the rules to fit our own ways; but when someone spots how we are bending the rules, we need to own up to the fact we have done things our own ways. If everyone starts to bend the rules in the same way as you have done, it does not make the “new way of doing things” the right way, it just means that everyone is doing things the wrong way!

Just because everyone drives along a certain road at 40 miles per hour when the sign posts say that it is 30 miles per hour, it does not mean that the law has changed. Just because someone drives at 45 miles per hour because they do not want to be late for work, school or church does not mean that it is ok… even if they are the boss, teacher, pastor or priest… The law is there to show us what is right and acceptable; anything else must therefore be wrong and unacceptable. We cannot bend the rules to fit into our own plan saying that it works for the better because, by doing what we think we can, we are allowing others to think it is ok to break the law. If we are ok with breaking the law in one manner, then why can it not be broken in another manner?

We do break God’s laws all the time. We do bend His laws to fit in with our own lifestyles. We like to think we are doing things right because God will get the glory in the end. But what happens when we do break a few laws to “get there in the end”? Does that not then tell others that it is ok to break the law? How can we be the judges of what is right and wrong when God has already set forth the law for us to follow? He is the one with the wisdom to set the laws in the first place so that we will not fall into temptation and be “forced” to break a law or two along the way. He has given us the law that is right. He has shown us the way. We just need to follow it!

Points to Ponder:
How often do you break the rules?

How often do you think of God when you break His rules?