1 Samuel 12:18 Then Samuel called on
the Lord, and that same day the Lord sent thunder and rain.
So all the people stood in awe of the Lord and of Samuel.
Independence
is a strong human trait, so men and women everywhere bristle when anyone says,
"You owe obedience!" In the natural sense, we do not take kindly to the prospect of yielding obedience
to anyone.
Both Old and New Testaments of the Bible make it plain that sin is disobedience
to the Law of God. Paul's picture of sinners in Ephesians concludes
that the wrath of God will come upon those who are "the children of disobedience."
So, we live in a generation of men and women alienated from God, and who make a
great case for individualism and "the right of
self-determination." The individual's strong statement is this:
"I belong to myself. No one has the authority to require my
obedience!"
Now, if God had made us to be mere machines, we would not have the power of
self-determination. He made us in His image, to be moral creatures with
the power, but not the right, to choose evil. We have the right to be
good.
We never have the right to be bad because God, the Creator, is good. If
we choose to be unholy, we are using a right that is not ours!
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