To become

unimaginable.Without sublimeand moral rulesdisorder, violence,and chaos will reign.As a consequencepeople may reachagreements to behavein a particular way sothat individual lifeand property wouldbe safe and be protected.Yet, if there wereno moral standardsbeyond humaninvention,the cleverand powerful wouldmake their own rulesand the weak willhave to follow them.

Why is it thatso few feel secure?Why do they rarely trustthat everything will turnout well in the end,no matter how badthe times are?Why do so few liveout of the consciousnessthat God is on the sideof the victims andnot on the side of thepowerful and the rich?Do we lose our joy and trustwhen we feel guilty?

so these dear believerspatterned their liveson the men who broughtthem the gospel,who were imitatingthe lovely Lord Jesus.Just as Christ sufferedon our account,for the joy that wasset before Him,so we are to sufferfor His sake forthe joy we find in Him.

invest our life insomething, andlive by somemoral codedirected by ourvisions of thegood life.

of his sinsis nearer to godthan all selfrighteous personswho think thatthey have not sinned.

covers and reachover and feel formy alarm clock.I know I shouldn’t,but I hit snooze again.The negative emotionswash over me likean extra layer ofsheets in myotherwise cozy bed.