Bending the Rules

You have commanded your precepts
to be kept diligently.
Oh that my ways may be steadfast
in keeping your statutes!

-Psalms 119:4-5

“Rules were made to be broken” is the theme of our generation basically.... We all know it’s true. We love to break or bend the rules; speeding rules, school rules, rules prohibiting phones, ignore common etiquette, whatever it may be, we love to bend the rules at some time or another (or all the time).  However, with God’s rules it should be different. God should be feared in our life. We picture Him as this cute and cuddly teddy bear so often without remembering that He is capable of enforcing His rules to any extent because He demands us to honor them. God is powerful. We need to remember that. He loves us beyond all comprehension, but He has sooooo much power that we can’t begin to even describe or imagine it.  However, the real point of this post is to say that if we don’t know God in true way, how can we know His rules? If we don’t understand the intentions behind each rule, what good does the rule do us? We would end up like the religious leaders of Jesus’ time, knowing and obeying the law, but missing the point. Let us not miss the point of the One who ought to be our Master. His words need to flow through us. We need to meditate on His law day and night (Psalms 1). We need to give Him all of us. We need to surrender to Him completely. However, if we don’t know what to live like, how can we do it? We need to dig into the Word all the time to know what God wants from us in order to bring glory to Him. This life is about Him. Time was created for His glory. Yet we so often live as if time was made for us to be glorified. We live to be immortal through fame and success. However, we forget that the biggest icon of immortality is our God and He created time. We live to be remembered, He gave you life to remember Him. His intentions were not wrong, so it must be ours. We need to seek His intentions out. We can start by making Him center of our life. We are lost without Him. We need His precepts (laws, direction) in our life. How else can we live as He calls us to? It starts in the heart. You have to want Him to take control and you need to seek Him out, crying out to Him to satisfy you. 

Let Him take control and cling to His precepts

-Ryan Scott