How Would You Live?

                Imagine if every Christian rule disappeared. Imagine if an angel of God came to the Earth and said that God repealed every law. No matter what, if we accepted Christ into our lives, we were going to Heaven. Sin no longer was against God, and we could do as we pleased. We could live as we want, and there was no such thing as right and wrong. Just living. Either you accepted Jesus to go to Heaven or you didn't.

                If this reality were true, and nothing you did was bad or wrong and evil, what would you do? If there were no consequences to sin, would you still be acting the same way? Be honest with yourself. Would you go out and get drunk? Would you go back to gossiping? Would you do drugs? If none of this was considered a sin, would you go back to doing it? If there was no wrong, how would you be living? If there was no rules, how would your life look?

                I know many people who would go back to doing drugs and hooking up if they could. I know many people who would try to be a "good person" and just do things on occasion. What would you be doing?

                For me, I would try to be more loving. I would try to show God's love more. I would try to be more like Christ. Yes, I know that I would be tempted to get angry and not think about it; but I would not truly want to do it. I would want to spread the love of God that much more. This question is not asking "how many rules would you keep?" It is asking, "how would you live?"

                If you no longer were obligated to follow the rules of the Bible, how would you live? Will you follow Christ out of gratitude, or out of an order? Will you love your neighbor because Christ have loved you so much that you just can't help it, or because Jesus told you to do it? Will you tell the truth because the truth will set you free, or because you know that lying is bad? Will you follow God out of gratitude, or because you don't want to go to Hell?

                We must examine our hearts. How do we expect to overcome lying when we don't really want to change. God cares about the heart, not the perfect human. If we do not want to stop lying because it hurts others and just because God said so, we do not truly want the change with all of our hearts. Yes, we should obey God; but we should also have an urge to obey God for good reasons and not just because it said so in the Bible. We obey God out of our heart. Is your heart trying to please God out of gratitude, or trying to please a rule book out of fear?


                                                                                                                                         -D