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This blog is actually about a dream I had. In my dream I was driving at night and the speed limit was 100 kilometres per hour. I was driving at 103 kilometres per hour when I noticed the speed camera parked on the side of the road.
As I looked down at my speedometer I noticed I was "only just" above the speed limit, and so didn't have any concern. Police traditionally tend to excuse people who are close to the speed limit and often give up to about ten percent extra. So it wasn't really a problem being on 103 - after all, I had up to about 110 before I had to start worrying.
As I drove past the camera, a bright flash filled the sky and I knew I had been caught speeding, and my photo had been taken. I was immediately upset. "How could they take my photo, I was only going 103?" It didn't seem fair.
The next morning when I woke up and remembered the dream I began to think about its possible meaning.
We all tend to see ourselves as being “better” than we really are. However, we are all “lawbreakers” in God’s eyes and we excuse the “little” things we do as not being so bad because they don’t seem hugely important.
Any judge who saw my speeding ticket would still impose a fine because evern though 103 is only 3 kilometres faster than 100, it is still breaking the law. To break the law by a little bit is still to break the law. However it is human nature to think that we can get away with a certain amount.
So most humans think that unless they are murderers, violent or incredibly evil, that God should not punish them because after all “I’m a good person.” These people are guilty of breaking God’s law just the same as the murderer or criminal, but instead they have a “self justice” that says “because I only do little wrong things, Its the same as not doing anything wrong.”
We have all broken God’s laws and we all deserve to be punished. There is no escaping from that. To those who come to Christ and in faith plead for mercy, determined to live and surrendur to His way of living – mercy is given and a new life begins. We must all stop living our way and start living God’s way. Thats the only thing with any future in it.
