Saturday, December 17, 2016
Do The Math
Do
the Math
I love Math, because you can (pardon the pun) count on
it. 2 + 2 = 4. It always does. It does in every culture. It is a principle of life that mankind has
discovered. Math works because it is made up of rules that have proven
true. Although more math concepts have
been discovered throughout history, we never change the basic rules. If we did so, we would only be fooling
ourselves.
The basic moral laws of God are no different than the laws
of Mathematics; they are truth. We have
discovered much of that truth. These truths work in every generation and in
every culture.
Oddly, mankind has a bizarre habit of “bending or
stretching the truth” to fit his druthers.
This has consistently proven to be foolish and yet it persists as the norm
rather than the exception. Often, great civilizations of yesteryear were built
on a few solid building blocks of truth, such as family, selflessness, honesty,
personal responsibility, or faith. Such
truths allowed those cultures to experience progress. Unfortunately, in spite of clear lessons from
history, new generations rose up and “messed with the math.” They tried to make 2+2=5. This kind of behavior has caused the most
“successful” world civilizations to collapse of their own weight.
The Ten Commandments are some great building blocks that
are immovable. Societies can remove them
from their public buildings, ban them from their schools and even imprison those
who hold to them, but those truths will still be the rules to live by. They will also be the rules which all mankind
will be judged by. Do the math.
One of the most important truths on which an individual can
build their life is the truth about becoming a part of God’s Kingdom. After Jesus died, rose again and ascended
into heaven, His disciples went to Jerusalem to wait for the “power” he
promised them. On the Day of Pentecost
Jesus disciples and followers (including his mother) were all filled with that
power and “spoke in tongues.” Those who
observed this amazing event heard Saint Peter preach a convicting sermon and
asked him the all-important question: “What shall we do to be saved?”
Peter responded by succinctly expressing the path to
salvation like this: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of
Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the
Holy Ghost.” (Acts 2:38 KJV)
It doesn’t matter how many years mankind lives, or how many
fads come and go, or how societies morph, Acts 2:38 is the truth about how we
can be born again. To change that is to
contaminate it, not to improve it. Do
the math.
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