In-dependence!

Since the beginning of our nation and of western civilization centuries earlier, freedom has been at the core of it all.

Freedom ~ that idea which is built on the back of both faith and reason; faith because freedom apart from faith lacks morality and is reduced to nothing more than hedonistic pursuits of “whatever I want,” and reason or rational thought because it considers more than one’s own self interests. The kind of freedom that Jesus Christ affirmed in His conversations with those He met which allowed people to choose to follow Him or not, or to act either properly or improperly as they chose.

Mankind however, has always pursued freedom, autonomy or self rule by casting off or ignoring every authority or voice of authority including the authority of God Himself. Humans have a rebellious spirit…in our fallen nature, we have a spirit of anarchy within us – we want freedom and we want it to the full measure. To achieve it, people are willing to throw off both the voice of reason and the voice of faith.

We WANT independence!!!

We WANT autonomy!!!

But we can’t HANDLE it, because apart from faith and reason we will take what we want FROM one another even up to each others very life. In the name of independence and autonomy we will only do what seems “right in our own eyes” and we’ve already seen where that leads (see Judges [21:25]).

The gender dispute of these days seeks to throw off the voice of reason and of faith. The issue of abortion seeks to throw off the voice of reason and of faith. Much of what we hear being argued for by junior leaders in Washington and the sophmorically wise in our universities is an effort to throw off the voice of reason and the voice of faith.

Listen, you can do that. You can ignore God, ignore reason, ignore faith; you can chase after whatever you want but ignoring the voice does not nullify the authority behind it nor the consequences that come for doing life your way (Proverbs 14:12, 2 Corinthians 5:10, Revelation 20:11-15).

It may be a dark saying but I encourage you to think about it…