God’s commands are not burdensome. Jesus calls us to take his yoke upon us – for his yoke is easy and his burden is light.
When we walk willingly in God’s ways, then we find out how easy it is! But when we grumble and rebel – then we find out how heavy and burdensome disobedience can be!
God’s law is not a straitjacket to bind you, but the path of true freedom and contentment.
The seventh commandment is an excellent example of this.
The sexual revolution promised freedom and happiness to all. All manner of sexual sins–from adultery to homosexuality to fornication–have been encouraged and rewarded. But what has it produced?
The self-indulgent quest for pleasure invariably reaps a harvest of pain and anguish. Divorce rates have skyrocketed (and no divorce is ever pleasurable!). Sexually transmitted diseases have brought both fear and death. Unwanted pregnancies have resulted in a meteoric rise in the abortion rate as well. In order to hide from the consequences of breaking the seventh commandment, people frequently break the sixth commandment as well, murdering the unborn, hoping to escape from the consequences of their sins.
Sin produces fear, misery, and death.
That is the message of Proverbs 5, as it reflects upon the seventh commandment....
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