WHEN GOD SAYS," That's Enough! "

I wonder if we as a society believe in the concept of “consequences” any more. Do we believe that there is a reaction to every action, a result to every behaviour, a punishment for every crime? We may say we believe in the law of consequences but it seems to me our behaviour makes many of us out to be liars. Take my weight problem for example. I understand the law of caloric intake which simply stated says that if I eat more than I need my body stores the excess as fat! But I choose to ignore the law of consequences with every slice of cherry cheese cake I devour.


Almost every one has seen the scientific evidence that smoking cigarettes shortens people lives. Most people have seen pictures of badly blackened lungs taken at autopsies of diseased smokers, but we defiantly keep on puffing, willfully ignoring the known consequences of our behaviour.

Here is a truth for you! You can ignore the consequences of your behaviours but the consequences of your behaviours don’t ignore you. Eat too much you get fat. Smoke and you get sick. Run away from God and you get caught!

I think that as a society we want to believe in some form of justice; that at some time right will prevail over wrong, that unfairness will be compensated for, that restitution will be made, that somehow the inequity of illness, loss, corruption, the domination of the disadvantaged will all be made right.

I think we want a God who can do something about the mess, the pain, the oppression. Not just a God who lets “stuff" slide by unchallenged, and uncorrected but a God who has the guts to “call” this world on its abuses and its abusers, and dispense appropriate consequences.
If that is the God we really want, a God who will do something, a God who will call it like it is, a God who will ensure that what is right ends up being right, then perhaps we need to give God permission to begin that same process in our very lives. Perhaps we need to give God the opportunity to call our lives like he sees our lives, to call us on our disobedience, our own injustice, our own self consumption. Perhaps we need an awakening to the law of consequences, our own consequences and understand if we want God to judge the inequities and iniquity in our world he most likely has to begin by judging the inequity and iniquity in our own lives.

Sound scary? Well here is the good news…We can judge ourselves or God can do it! We can pay attention to the consequences or ignorantly ignore reality. When a consequence comes to claim what is its right…don’t blame God!