I am a great believer in the Book of Proverbs. If there is
one book that would wipe away situation ethics, it is surely this one. As I
understand it, situation ethics is nothing more then getting, after demanding,
our own way. As for the law, what law? We have managed to wipe out any vestige
of personal law. Why, anyone can sue for the least reason now. I am amazed at
the anthills of complaints that pile up and up and up.
A number of years ago I taught Proverbs to our preteens at
church; I can only pray that at least one of these young souls learned that
life comes with obligations, and it isn't to his or her eternal shame to act
like it. I tried to impress upon these precious souls that these rules we all
so abhor are actually fences to protect us, not barriers to our fun in life. As
I said to a young fellow one day, if there were no rules on the road, we'd be
road-kill.
"Let the wise listen and add to their learning"
(Proverbs 1:5). First, we must shut out the noise! Mrs. Fanatic here has been
on a campaign for years to get our minds into our quiet space and THINK. Ohoh,
think? Turn off the television if you want a vision! And then the phones and
the blackberries and the radios and the computers - anything that's a
distraction, which is just about everything these daze.
Ralph Waldo Emerson stated: "At times the whole
world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend,
client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet
door and say, 'Come out unto us.'" The world is knocking with clutter of
mind and body. Trivial Pursuit is the name of today's game. We must decide for
ourselves what is important, and then shut the door to the rubbish, which
increases by the minute.
"Discretion will guard [us]" (Proverbs 2:11) so
that we may divide the wheat from the chaff and the essential from the
ever-increasing non-essentials.
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