Obeying God's Laws

By: Sandra Harris Frey

Have you ever been speeding down the road, lost in thought, listening to some great music and suddenly those blue lights are flashing in your rearview mirror? The police officer asks you for your driver’s license, registration, and insurance card. If you are a law abiding citizen, you will have these documents with you. He collects them, goes back to his cruiser to run your plates and to write up a nice note telling you what you did wrong, how much you will need to pay, and the date you can visit with the judge. This is a traffic citation.

Some of you ladies may try to charm your way out of the ticket because you would rather spend your money on a new handbag, besides the speed limit is 35 miles per hour and that does seem a little slow for that stretch of road and 45 miles per hour seemed to get you there a lot faster. Some folks become argumentative and menacing. They threaten officers with their jobs because “they know someone downtown with a lot of influence”. Others know they have been speeding down that highway for years and should have had a hundred tickets by now. They are humbled and almost thankful the officer slowed them down. Their distractions may have caused an accident down the road. The blue lights flashing in the window signaled reality to return.

God gave us laws in the very beginning to follow, but temptation always seems to stand in the way of us keeping those laws holy. He put those laws in place in the beginning to show us our boundaries. The ideal outcome was to insure peace and harmony in the universe.

If you see those flashing lights in your rearview mirror one day, remember to respect the law. That police officer is just insuring you obey the law. Respect him. He may save your life one day.

Matthew 5:9

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.”