Rules?
Rules are for suckers, right?
No one follows rules anymore.
Except for one really important instance.
Video games!
The ultimate example, I guess, would be the fantasy games – like fighting against evil people – against zombies – against aliens – against anything or anyone that’s considered evil. Those games are so popular. And they have rules. And the players follow the rules. And they’re OK with the rules. Because that’s how computer games work.
But – it’s still all fantasy. It’s not real.
Life, on the other hand, is very real. And it’s a battle against a very real opponent – the Evil One himself – Satan and his band of fallen angels. It’s the ultimate – real life or real death – contest. It has rules – just like the video games. And the rules are enforced – just like the video games. But we’re not OK with that.
Why not?
It can’t be the fact that we’re not allowed to break the rules. Because we’re OK with rules in video games, which can’t be broken.
We’ll play for a fantasy victory on a computer. But we won’t play for our very lives when it comes to God/Jesus?
We’ll play the fantasy video game as if our lives depended on it. But when it comes to real good and evil, we’ll pretend no such thing exists?
Could it be that we’re afraid of really truly living?
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