Thursday, June 3

An Evil Speed


Is there 'an evil speed'?
What do you mean "an evil speed"?
I mean a speed that is inherently evil? I mean, is driving 75 mph an evil speed?
No, you say, I do it all the time.
What about 80? 90? 100? 65? 37?
no, no, no, no and no you say.
Then why can I get a traffic ticket for driving any of those speeds?
Well, it's because of the law.
Right, the law! When I got my driver's license, the speed limit on an interstate highway was 55mph. I remember discussing it with a fellow student who was arguing that it should be 60 because 60 is in harmony with nature [60 sec. in a minute, 60 min. in an hour...] During that time I got a ticket for driving 62mph...on a highway. But, when I was in college, they changed the speed limit from 55 to 70 on those same highways. So again I ask about evil speed. Did they change the law because 62, which used to be evil, is no longer evil? Is 72 now evil?
no, that's silly. A speed is not evil.
Exactly! you see, there is no evil speed. It's not a matter of numbers, or physics, or training, or mechanics, it's not even a matter of speed, it is a matter of law, and of obedience to that law.
The question is simple. Will you, or will you not obey?
"Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake"
1 Peter 2:13

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