God’s word is law. To ignore, defy or grumble about it is choosing to act in my own detriment. A law is not only a requirement or a restriction, a law can also be a truth. Like gravity. Mankind may shirk the law of gravity for moments but not forever. Like airplanes returning to the runway, the course is predictable: defying the law and succumbing to the law. One way or another the law eventually prevails.
I think defied gravity once as a child. We were playing tag and I was running at top speed toward a low wall. Rather than hurdling it, I planted my foot on top and pushed off into the air, trying to miss the sand pile on the other side. As I flew, I caught a glimpse of a long black snake stretched out on the warm sand below my feet and miraculously increased my velocity mid-flight. Landing on the grass and continuing my escape now with even greater abandon, I just hoped my friend behind me could muster the same powers.
It’s a weird thing that defying a law, scientific, moral or otherwise can make a person feel powerful for a moment. It can leave a person with the disastrous idea that they are more powerful than gravity or that some principles don’t apply to them or their circumstance. Ultimately, however, a limit is reached and, like the law of diminishing returns, things begin to take a turn for the worse.
The Bible is not a book of requirements and restrictions, it is Truth. The Creator is Truth. His Word is Truth. He can bestow nothing but Truth. His Truth sets me free to soar.
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 2 Timothy 4:3
Meeting God at the Park 