My son loves to do things he is not supposed to do. One of
his current favorite activities is to disturb fire ant mounds. A dangerous
hobby indeed, and unfortunately our yard is like a mine field with mounds in
nearly all directions and not far apart. Now when we are out back my wife and I
must keep a constant eye on our wobbly explorer and have a keen awareness of
the proximity of all mounds. Not an easy task and it makes it difficult to
accomplish anything besides directing our son away from these disaster sites.
The thing is, when we tell Levi to watch out for the fire ants or to quit
bothering a mound he will stomp his foot and tell us no. He will listen but he
does love to protest. He has no understanding of the danger he is playing with
and somehow sees our instructions as getting in the way of his good time, when
all the while we are only protecting him from the fire ants.
Now consider the commands of the Lord. How many times do we
consider the Lord’s instruction a hindrance to our good time? We even go as far
as to believe that we do not need to heed the commandments of God because we
are not under law but grace. Yet the things we call “religious” are protecting
us from the fire. If we would only listen, we would be spared many troubles.
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