A 3/2/23 San Diego U-T story related the account of a Colorado woman who celebrated her birthday by injecting herself with black tar heroin. She awakened to desperate efforts seeking to administer naloxone—which reversed the overdose.
The response of liberal lawmakers happened as expected: establish overdose centers where drug users could actually take drugs overseen by specialists in reversing overdoses. Conservatives in law enforcement, ministry and legislatures criticized the practice since it tolerated a deadly plague on humans who voluntarily harmed themselves but sought freedom from responsibility of its consequences. The spiritual issue in the discussion eluded all but those who always investigate human behavior to determine the Biblical principles upheld or ignored. For example, in 2022 the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) confiscated 6542 guns at airport checkpoints. U-T, 2/21/23. When anyone capable of buying an airline ticket KNOWS the RULE: no guns allowed aboard planes. What is there about NO that humanity doesn’t understand? It’s an inherited trait from mother Eve, who arrogantly refused to believe that GOD MEANT NO when he SAID NO—do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. For example, liberal governments at all levels are willing to help us not kill ourselves by making bad decisions. Though that effort eliminates personal responsibility for behavior. That logic defies the argument that they’re going to take drugs anyway, and it’s better to keep them alive from a deadly habit than let them die by making bad choices, no questions asked, no demands made. That specious reasoning denies government the power to keep people from being irresponsibly reckless, but assumes care for them when they fail to be responsible. That is why so many people love government and so few love Jesus. He always stands ready to fill life full of the Holy Spirit, thereby preventing the attraction to bad habits, bad companionship and bad decisions that put us in jeopardy. Indeed, the Holy Spirit’s presence prevents the attraction of those evil influences. AND, when we make such choices, the conscience God enlightens won’t let us rest until we have repented. The Spirit empowers us to BE ALL Jesus intends by getting SELF out of the way to let him. Jesus always stands ready to forgive any sin we commit and admit. However, we must admit we have sinned, are responsible for it and deserve to be sent to Hell as a result, and only God’s Grace has saves us from that fate.
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