It seems anymore that when I take the young people to any outing, the business will require me get signed waivers. This use to be common with more “extreme” activities but it seems anything now requires one. It doesn’t seem to keep anyone from going, (It fact one young person commented, “If you have to sign waiver you know its going to be good”), but it becomes quite a hassle. The reason for them is simple: lawsuits. Companies are terrified of being sued over any injury or accident so they make you sign away any liability even when the only way you could get hurt is if you were being totally foolish. They know that your foolishness won’t keep them from getting sued, and sometime even losing. It worries me because it seems we have slowly taken away any sense of personal reasonability from our lives. No matter what happens, it is someone's fault, but not ours. Some even hold that attitude towards God. Romans 2:6-9 warns us that we will all be judged not for what others do, but what we have done. In the end, the blame for are mistakes will only fall squarely on our own shoulders.
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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