There has been a lot of angst about recent court decisions and legislative actions. Mainly these address things that some people do not approve of being legalized.
Same sex marriage.
Marijuana.
Abortion.
Whatever.
There’s a huge difference between legal and right.
It’s legal to create phony offshore corporations in order to avoid paying taxes. It’s legal to sell clothing made in prison-like sweatshops in Bangladesh. It’s legal to sell iPods made in Chinese factories in which the workers must work 18 hour days and live in company dormitories so they can be awakened at any hour of the day or night when Apple wants to try something new.
God gave us a free will to choose what is right and pleasing to Him. He didn’t restrict our ability to decide; He told us what He wants and then lets us decide on our own. We don’t always decide wisely (remember the apple thing in the Garden of Eden?)
I suspect that He won’t be impressed with our legal loopholes or our skillful splitting of hairs. He’s going to expect us to have done what was right.
It may be legal to ignore the poor, but we do so at our peril. It may be legal to seek revenge for our enemies, but Jesus instructed us to pray for them instead.
Jesus challenged us to be perfect, just as the Father is perfect.
We (starting with me) area long way from perfect, but we can try to do what is right.
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