All definitions are from Merriam Webster.
We live in a world seeped in pain. Our world is full of hurts and wounds, and every single human being living in it has both inflicted countless wounds and bears countless wounds of their own.
We live in a world where any sin can be justified, and yet we know that it is right to help someone who we see has fallen, and it is wrong to kick them. In the midst of the most ugly of sin, we know that it is wrong, we know what is and isn’t fair, and everyone knows it- and yet no one ever has been able to follow it perfectly.
“human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get …show more content…
Lewis says in the same book that this sense of moral law implies a creator. If there is a law everyone has without having being told the law, there must be a higher being who puts the law in place.
This is scary, since none of us follow the law, according to this law we are all rebels and criminals who will surely be punished.
Is there any way out?
Thankfully, there is- there is a way to be free of every way we break this law. Because the Son of this God, has volunteered to step in for us- he will pay our punishment. All we have to do is except it. There are three steps to accepting the freedom from those aggressions against the moral law given to us by God:
Belief, baptism, and communion.
Belief: believe that Jesus is the Son of God and accept his gift of eternal life.
Baptism: Be baptized is the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Communion: Take communion after baptism.
When Christians talk about ‘Christ in me,’ it’s not a strange pointless saying- Christ lives through us. Christians are forgiven of their sins, and can be sure of eternal life because even though they have broken every part of the biblical law, they have accepted Christ’s gift. We become like the God we worship, and if the God you worship is the true God, then every day you will become more and more like a God about whom has been said “God is love” -1 John