107 RULES
107 RULES
The are rules for everything; rules for living, rules for dieing, rules for walking, rules for eating, rules for everything that you will say, do and, even, think.
Every person, organization or government makes rules of conduct for those under them. Parents have rules for their children, organizations have rules for their people and governments have rules for their people and departments.
Without rules, no-one would know how or what they are supposed to do and would have to rely on those, in direct contact over them in their group, to tell them what to do to be a valuable addition to the group. This could lead to a direction that the group did not want to go in, if that person over you decided to do their own thing. [Most church splits are caused by this action.]
When everyone is obeying the rules that they are supposed to, the group, organization or community is in harmony and enjoys peace and safety while they progress at a satisfactory pace.
When a part of, or most of, the people in a group are disobeying the rules and doing their own thing, there is confusion and chaos and the progress of the group slows, stops or, even, regresses back away from where they really want to go.
Most rules are put there for the good of the entire group and, regardless of what we think about them, someone in authority and, usually with help from their advisors and some intelligent thought, decided that the rules were the best ones for the process.
God has allowed or given everyone their position of authority, for His good and the good of those that He has placed under us and He will hold us accountable for the diligence that we put into overseeing those people or things and our obedience to those over us.
He also has rules that He will expect total obedience to when His kingdom comes; rules that He expects us to be learning and practicing now so we can know and do them well.
His rules do not contradict the safe and peaceful coexistence of all people with each other and everything but do have to be enforced diligently and, sometimes, even violently. Punishment and, even, extraction have to be used as tools to keep the whole healthy and progressing. As each one is responsible for the authority that God has given them, this punishment must be done through the proper chain of command and with much discussion and humility.
God has the final say as to who has done well or who has done badly; who has obeyed His rules and who has not.
Jesus, God’s son and king of the entire creation of God, obeyed the Old Testament rules that God placed on His people; obeying even the wicked priests because that was what His father, God, wanted Him to do. Jesus broke none of the rules of God, His religion or his government because he loved his father in heaven and received his reward; us to be his servants and friends, if we choose Him to be our friend and master.
He has and will decide who we are to obey and who we are to have authority over and it will always agree with his father’s word. It’s simple; obey those over us with a love for God and rule those under us with a love for God.
For due diligence, God has rewards and for slack and lazy people, God also has rewards. The choice is yours what reward you will get; choose wisely.
