Just Right
Good Morning,
How do you respond if you speak with the doctor about doing a surgery, and he says, “There are some medical professionals who like everything just right. They want every medical “T” crossed and “I” dotted. But I am of the more relaxed philosophy medically. We may or may not wash our hands before the surgery. We will do our best to get all of the injured parts of your body repaired and back in the proper place, but it may not always work out.”
How about your mechanic? What if you bring your car to be fixed and the mechanic says, “I will see if I can get it running. And just so you know, I am not worried about everything being just right, as long as it starts when you push the gas pedal and stops when you put on the break. I may cut some corners. In fact I’ve been known to put in used parts because they save money, even though they’re not the best idea.”
I think all of us would agree that we do not want that kind of doctor or mechanic. If someone is building my house, I would like the corner to be square. I would like the proper headers over doors and windows. I would like the roofing to be the proper thickness, and the floor to be capable of carrying the load of refrigerators, pianos, and other heavy objects.
What is strange to me is the number of people who want their religion to be relaxed, less rigid, and less insistent on things being right and wrong. If your doctor or your mechanic does not do things exactly right, there is a good chance you will survive, but if your religion is not right, you will go straight to hell. If your religion is not right, your children or grandchildren will go straight to hell. If you do not follow biblical principles in dating, there is a much higher chance that you will lose your marriage and your children will be raised by someone else.
I want things “just right;” and that is why God does not make directives optional. He gave us Ten Commandments. God made it clear about which things to do or not do. He named several things that are unpopular in our compromising culture.
Proverbs 30:6 "Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”
God does not want you to add one word to the things that He has said; follow instructions as closely as possible.
Revelation 22:18 “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:”
vs. 19 “And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”
God does not want you to add anything to His Word, and He does not want you to take anything away from His Word. What He said is what He meant, and He does not want anyone changing His instructions. Obey exactly the way He instructed.
This relaxed and “do what you feel like doing” kind of Christianity is far from scriptural.
Do what you do just the way God said to do it!
- Pastor Bruce Goddard