Everywhere around us is law. It’s inescapable.
The laws of nature seem to have just as much affect on our lives as God’s law. It’s one in the same. Cause and affect can be the most frustrating. For some, if it can happen, it will happen. And most of the time we are just trying to cope and react to what the laws of life will bring.
Summer follows spring and winter follows fall. Over and over. We can’t change it. We just have to adapt. The natural laws on earth are just as powerful as universal laws in heaven. What we put into our minds and bodies will have immediate results. And the same is true spiritually.
If we are an Eternal spirit and live in our physical bodies, why then do we pretend that spiritual laws don’t somehow apply to us?
Most of us believe that commandments are somehow boring restrictions that won’t allow for fun choices. However, it’s really the opposite. Commandments are opportunities to be free from bondage. When someone breaks the laws of man, they can be arrested and put into jail, where choice is not an option anymore. The same is true with spiritual law.
When we break spiritual law, negligent or not, there are just as many consequences as breaking laws of the land, if not more. Just because we are on temporary bail to roam the earth, doesn’t mean we are spiritually free. Not at all. It’s a false sense of security. We can be physically free, but spiritually shackled, full of despair, with very little hope.
Spiritual laws and moral laws are just as powerful, if not more. For example, when we treat each other a certain way (good or bad) there’s a spiritual consequence. When we do good to each other, we naturally feel good. And the same for bad. Doesn’t matter your religion. Some call it karma. Either way we get what we give into the universe.
I’ve seen some of the happiest, non-religious people on the planet living this higher law, without even knowing what they are following. Treating people like they want to be treated. The golden rule. I’ve also seen the most unhappy, religious people who pretend to love God, who don’t love their neighbors at all. I’ve fallen into this trap several times in my life. That’s sin. In the book of James it says “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
This is why Jesus commanded us to love each other. Because without that love between each other, we’ve broken the 2nd most powerful law in the universe, besides loving God Himself. But we truly can’t love God if we don’t love each other first. It’s impossible. This is what He’s trying to teach us.
This is why our planet is so off between people. The law has been broken collectively. This is why we will have our day like the people of Noah’s time had theirs. Because we don’t love each other like we should. It’s so simple but yet so hard.
The good news is that we can each make it right with people around us, today. We can individually prepare ourselves to live that higher, heavenly law. To have peace in our souls. Because we can’t run from His law or His love. Either learn His law willingly, or learn His law reluctantly. Either way we will learn. Because He loves us. And that love is inescapable.
