A Law Unto Myself

 WHO HAS AUTHORITY IN MY LIFE?

It doesn’t seem to matter where the news comes from what community or country, there is a growing sense of lawlessness among people.  Everyone wants to do their own thing.  No one wants to be told what to do or to change or limit what they want to do for the betterment of the community at large.

God’s purpose in creating humans in His likeness was that they would live in loving relationship with Him and with each other.  God and God alone knew what made life word and how humans could have the most fulfilled lives. God the creator of the universe and the Lord of all time is the one who hold ultimate wisdom and authority.

Satan, a created angel, was once in a place of great importance before the throne of God, but because he became prideful and wanted to elevate himself to have the same authority God has, he was cast out of heaven.  Now he roams the earth seeking to deceive and destroy humans who are made in the image of God.

Through Satan’s lies and scheming, he managed to make the first humans believe that God was withholding something good from them.

Jesus came to earth to live completely surrendered to the authority of His Heavenly Father. After he fulfilled completely His Father’s agenda of dying for our sins on the cross and rising again to new life Jesus told his disciples:

Jesus told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth.

Matthew 28:18

So, whose authority will we follow today?  When we follow the desires of our own heart, whether in an addictive lifestyle or just ignoring the God who created us, we are allowing Satan to have authority in our lives. 

When we get to know and follow God’s ways, He fills our lives with blessing.

Loving God, You who created us and who loves and cares for us.  We confess that we often think we can be the best authority in our own world but we are as wrong about that as Satan was.  His lyings about being our own authority are as deadly to us today as they were to Adam and Eve.

We acknowledge that You and You alone have the Words of life that we need.  We want Your plans and purposes to shape how we live today.  Give us understanding of and willingness to surrender our desires and behaviours to Your purposes.  Amen