Promises, Promises
Gone is the day when a person's word was their bond. We live in an age where the celebrities of today develop prenuptial agreements before they give their word in marriage. This seems to me an oxymoron, a person who promises to forsake all others and offer themselves second to the one they love, has no need of back up clauses or documentation in case they don't keep their word. The very existence of such agreements, in my mind disqualify all those who would seek to enter marriage from ever understanding the true gift that marriage is from God.
What hope then is there?, For if we now exist when the most personal of promises means nothing, what other levels have we fallen to.
I am told in days of old, a spit in the hand and a shake was the required level of trust for major transactions, now lawyers abound, and courts are blocked with ever increasing litigations against one another. So what dear reader has gone wrong?
The wrong questions society has asked is "how can we legislate morality?", and has assumed that more and detailed laws can compensate for an ever increasing decline of personal standards in the world.
A more helpful, but tougher question to ask is "On what is my morality based?". Consider dear reader, what motivates your actions?. For some fear, for others self interest, others may feel generosity for fellow men, but upon deeper examination may find this stems from a sense of well being which comes from such actions.
The world it seems has decided that there is no absolute basis for morality, and that the only "sin", is to suggest that there may be. Sadly tolerance is a word which never stetches to encapulate itself!
So we untolerant people, we who would dare suggest that one code of morality does exist and that all should be held to it, must accept in life that we are to be the minority, a correct minority, but a minority none-the-less .
It is this then i place to you today, that there in this world of ours, there exists a way of living which relies not upon ones own choice of right or wrong, but surrenders this choice in favour of one wiser than ourself, who has released his mind to us in ways so plain, that we see right past them!
So Dear reader, why should you keep you word? what makes your promises..... promises?
What hope then is there?, For if we now exist when the most personal of promises means nothing, what other levels have we fallen to.
I am told in days of old, a spit in the hand and a shake was the required level of trust for major transactions, now lawyers abound, and courts are blocked with ever increasing litigations against one another. So what dear reader has gone wrong?
The wrong questions society has asked is "how can we legislate morality?", and has assumed that more and detailed laws can compensate for an ever increasing decline of personal standards in the world.
A more helpful, but tougher question to ask is "On what is my morality based?". Consider dear reader, what motivates your actions?. For some fear, for others self interest, others may feel generosity for fellow men, but upon deeper examination may find this stems from a sense of well being which comes from such actions.
The world it seems has decided that there is no absolute basis for morality, and that the only "sin", is to suggest that there may be. Sadly tolerance is a word which never stetches to encapulate itself!
So we untolerant people, we who would dare suggest that one code of morality does exist and that all should be held to it, must accept in life that we are to be the minority, a correct minority, but a minority none-the-less .
It is this then i place to you today, that there in this world of ours, there exists a way of living which relies not upon ones own choice of right or wrong, but surrenders this choice in favour of one wiser than ourself, who has released his mind to us in ways so plain, that we see right past them!
So Dear reader, why should you keep you word? what makes your promises..... promises?
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