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Topic: Breaking the Rules (08/16/04)
TITLE: Crossing God's Boundaries
By Cindy Bonner
08/23/04
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If I break the rules, I become just like everyone else.
God has set forth boundaries for us all, and if we indeed cross those boundaries, then we are no better people than the world and no one will see Christ living in us.

Problems stem inside the realm of temptation. We want to do what everyone else does. It is so easy, just get a divorce and live the way you want to live. Marry whomever you please, but don’t forget usually those marriages end up in divorce as well. So then, you are back where you started anyways.

The biggest fight is that, if we submit to this type of thinking, then our sister and our brother can then point their fingers at us and say, you are no better than we are. God in you makes no difference in your life and that makes your religion of no value to anyone or us.

So if we disobey God, then we wreck all of our life’s work in the realm of our faith.

We cannot break the rules that God has set forth for us.

For example,
I cannot leave the husband I have married and lived with for 25 years; some of those years have been spent in heartache. But that is no excuse. I cannot abandon my children in my home, one is under the age of ten and the others are grown. If I accept the life of another man, then I become part of how the world lives and I reject all the teaching that God has for me. I cannot do that.

I love God too much.

I would rather live in sorrow than to give up the life that God freely gives me. I would rather live with want than to live in riches and disobey the Father in heaven who adores me. I would rather suffer daily the temptations that plague me, than submit to the evil behind them.

I will not turn away for even a moment in time. If I am allowed a choice, I will not turn away willingly from Christ, who died blood for me.
I have not suffered unto death or blood yet.
I will live for Christ though the world thinks I should yearn and want things for myself.

I will not budge.

So great is the Love of God for me, that I can ignore these things and follow him.

I will not break his rules to save my life. I keep his rules to save my life.