Evangel Daily

Disorder is the very nature of sin as the Bible reveals it; it is inspired by the spirit of lawlessness - 2 Thess. 2:7-8. The great fundamental in sin is defiance against God.

Something like that marked the time of the Judges. God's people did what was right in their own eyes - there was no law. What a bitter price they paid for such "freedom." And that is what sin is, a terrific and powerful spirit acting in defiance against God, a deliberate and emphatic independence of God and His claim over me.

The book of Judges is a sad narration of repeated way-ward-ness requiring God to use oppression by their heathen neighbours to bring them back to their senses. The truth is that we are not fundamentally free, external circumstances are not in our hands, they are in God's hands, the one thing in which we are free is in our personal relationship to God. True liberty means ability not to violet the law; lawlessness means personal insistence on doing what I like.

Still today, professing Christians ignore God's clear revelation of Himself in His Word. They form their own ideas of what God is like and what He expects. Strongly influenced by humanistic philosophy and concept of self-realization, they live at the center of their own little world. Though claiming to be people of God, they actually walk in their own ways. This creates moral and spiritual confusion.

When we take God's Word seriously and live by it, we will show the world the value of doing what God says is right.