If you are like me, you hate driving over speed bumps. No matter how careful you try to drive over, it jars the vehicle, skips your cd, and makes you think about how far out of alignment your car has just become. We have to have speed bumps for safety, right? Well, it turns out that speed bumps are less safe than we thought. A recent study in Boulder, Colorado found that for every 1 life a speed bump saves, it kills 85 persons in the delays that they cause to emergency services. So why do have so many? Well they seem safe, so people accept them. It’s much like what Paul said of man-made commandments that people add to the word of God in Colossians 2:23. “These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.” The religious rules humans create often seem to make for better spirituality, but in practice they cause much more harm than they do good and do nothing to actually help us be more Godly. Rules, like false teachers, are best seen in results rather than appearances.
Ok, I know you have seen the image. A lion tamer enters in the cage of the beast and forces it to obey his commands using a whip, a gun and a chair. Now you can see how the whip and gun could come in handy but you might be wondering why a chair would intimidate an animal as powerful as a lion? Clyde Beatty taming a lion with a chair It's not that the lion is afraid of the chair -- it's that the lion is confused by the chair. Cats are single-minded, and the points of the chair's four legs bobbing around confuse the lion enough that it loses its train of thought. Casually put, the chair distracts the lion from wanting to claw the lion tamer's face off. The powerful creature could destroy the chair in moment’s notice but instead it is distracted into submission. It’s not too much different than how Satan controls us today. By the power of God we could overcome anything that he would use to subdue us. We can overcome the evil one (1 st John 2:13-14). ...
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