If you are a Web-a-holic as I have become then chances are that in the course your travels you have come upon a site that has posted the four spiritual laws listed on the next page. Now I will admit that I frequently see this message, because I seek out such sites. But I am sure many when they encounter this message back out of the site of "another pushy Christian". So I decided to put up a site that would glorify The Lord and express my love for Him without bashing the reader over the head with visions of fire and brimstone.

After 50 some odd years of wandering through the lanes and by-ways of the world I had heard most of the propaganda designed to lead mankind down the road that is paved with good intentions.

I had even been suckered into believing in a few of them.



1. Who am I to impose my morality on anyone else.

This one has led this nation to become a vast killing field of the most innocent among us. Baby-killing factories have sprung up in every city in the nation. This business has become bigger than Bingo.

Fueled by the liberal feminist agenda and aided by William Jefferson Clinton this practice cannot be stopped, even though "public-opinion" is overwhelmingly against this barbaric practice.

I am speaking of partial-birth abortion here. Thirty years ago when "Roe vs. Wade" was the news of the day this was not on the table. That fight was about aborting a child in the first trimester. But like everything that man does, if you give an inch he will take a mile.

My Mother had told me once about a friend of hers who had had an abortion to save her family the shame of harboring an un-wed mother and then raising an illegitimate child. She was forced to go to a back-street-butcher and have the procedure and as a result almost lost her own life.

This story stuck in my mind and made a deep impression on me and when the issue of "Roe vs. Wade" came up I remembered rule number one.

Who am I to impose my morality on anyone else?

Know when it hit me what is wrong with this philosophy? When I found myself pregnant with a child after my three children were grown and ready to leave the nest. Why should I have to have this child and mess up MY life with diapers and PTA for another 15 years, when it is so easy to get rid of it? Know what my mother said to that one? "Sweetheart, who are YOU to decide who shall live and who shall die?

That is a GOD decision, give it to Him.

All that time I thought she was pro-choice.
She was.
She choose to trust The Lord to make the right descision. You just never know about people.

And there is something else wrong with that philosophy also. If we, as Christians don't impose our morality on the world, all too soon the world begins to impose their morality on our children and grand-children.

2. "I'm OK, You're OK".

The trouble with this one is it has been corrupted into, "You're OK, I'm TERRIFIC". After twenty or so years of this therapy our prison system is over-loaded with advocates of that one, and society is now scrambling to undo that mistake.

Man is not humble by nature, he is agressive and selfish. We and ours has been totally replaced by I and mine. The same yo-yo's that came up with that crazy program are now designing one to fix it. Hello, it wasn't broke to begin with, you should have left it alone.

3. "Everybody does it".

I am happy to say that this was not one I fell for. Whenever I was tempted the words I heard over and over as a child rung in my head. "If everyone decided to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge" would you try it?

Nevermind! Some things just stick in you head.

4. It's not fair, we need a level playing field.

Now this one is Satan's coup-d-etat. It appeals to everything bad in man's nature. It relieves him of all guilt or responsibility for his own actions and allows him to condone unacceptable behavior of others.

Coupled with number three it has allowed this nation to fall so far from what our fore-fathers intended it to be that they wouldn't set foot in it for fear of being sued for violating the first amendment and for writing the tenth.

As to why I am writng this now:

It came to my attention lately that even though my love for The Lord is apparent my reason for seeking Him may not be.

After too many years of running the race by the world's rules I found myself at a dead-end. I had achieved everything I had set out after. I had won the race. I was a success, so why did I feel like a failure?

What was missing? Why was there this empty void inside of me, and why can't I find something to fill it? Have you ever felt like that? Have you ever tried to fill your life and your time with things? Have you ever looked in the mirror and not liked what you see? Have you ever tried to lose yourself in a crowd only to see your reflection in everyone there?

Ever think about putting in call to Dr. Kevorkian?
Ever decided it was time to check out of this sorry world?

Well I did. In fact I thought about it all the time. Everyone I knew was convinced I had lost my mind. But it was not my mind I had lost, I had lost sight of God and I was sure that he had lost sight of me. I was able to identify the problem, I knew that the hole in my heart could only be filled by one person, Jesus Christ, and I could not come up with one good reason why He should want me.

No, not one.



One day I was browsing through Barnes & Noble looking for another self-help how-to book, or a romance novel, or a good mystery, or a sci-fi, or a horror story. I wanted something to fill my head with. It was no use, I had read them all. Well not really, but when you read one you have read them all. I think they only change the names so the author won't recognise himself. I left the store with my pocketbook untouched but my heart wasn't.

I don't know to this day how He touched me, but He did. As I was walking up to my door I saw two people just turning away from my front door. I knew who they were, they had been to my door before. They were from Jehovah's Witnesses. Swell, just what I need. Since there was no way to avoid them and my parents had raised me to be polite, I nodded to them and stopped to talk. They showed me their magazine with a picture on the cover of paradise on Earth.

Right!

They laughed when I turned up my nose and said that will never happen here. They agreed that it wouldn't, at least not under the current management but they took out a Bible and began to read to me.

I talked to them for several minutes and told them that I had a Bible and thank you very much. I really mean that. They pointed me in the right direction. They come so close but they still miss the mark. They don't get it. You cannot work your way to God. There is only one way back and that is to cross over the bridge built out of two-thousand year old wood.

Salvation is by His Grace.
Think about it.
The Law justify's no one.

God makes no distinction, break one you have broken them all. The penalty is death. Not one of us can ever go through life and not transgress His laws. We were not meant to, they were handed down as an indictment. We are all guilty as charged. As awful as that may sound to you take heart. The penalty has been paid. We have a friend in Court. We have been bought back by the Cross of Jesus. With hands that are scarred by Roman nails He has handed the Judge our ransom payment. He stands before you with a pardon in His hands. Are you going to push it away because you don't care for His name? Are you going to refuse it because some of His children become rowdy or boastful or pushy or arrogant?

I don't think so.