Resolution #1: Stop breaking the law and endangering lives!

Resolution #1

To stop breaking the law and endangering lives

I have dilly dallied a while on the first one because I felt the pressure of #1 signifying a level of importance, not just a random order

But it has been too long delayed. Given the whole idea of this series of blogging was for me to not forget what I was struck by at Engage, it is time to put pen to paper with a disclaimer that #1 is not necessarily the most important :-p

#1. Stop breaking the law and endangering lives

We’ve all seen the tv ads, the ones that have a mobile with a message like “running late, be there soon” and a cut to a funeral. They are trying to give us a somber message that the message can wait. I don’t know about you, but I continue to type and drive

A friend who is training to be a police officer the other day was telling us how it is illegal not just to use your phone when driving, but any time the car is on (i.e. at a red light!)...

In the letter that the apostle Paul writes to the Christians in Rome, a place where they are getting less than a fair run from the governing authorities, he tells them that there isn’t a government in the world that hasn’t been put there by God, therefore submitting to them is submitting to God. Following that: “Government is God’s servant to you for good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason.”

Its not like the government sits around trying to figure out how they can ruin my life, and yet I treat the law as if it is a nuisance? And its not like I can just follow “God’s way” and ignore the laws of Australia.. that is antithetical.

I am going to put Romans 13 into practice in this way:

No more texting and driving.

Please hold me to this friends

Whether by telling me off if I forget and you’re in my car

Or by understanding if I take even longer to return a text :)

I want to serve God, even in this alleyway of my life

Thanks

Kat