Why does my human heart want to break the law (not just unintentionally) but often intentionally?

Daily writing promptHave you ever unintentionally broken the law?View all responses

We humans find it easy to abandon godly character and to do ungodly things. Righteous laws are important, but a society needs more than laws. We need to have multitudes of people with a pure conscience who will obey those laws when no one is looking.

Heart contaminants crush mental health. Humanity’s greatest problem is mental and heart pollution. Every lie you tell contaminates your heart. Mental and emotional contamination is highly contagious. If you don’t protect yourself from it, you’ll catch it and absorb it.

Contaminated thoughts will make you sicker than contaminated food. Polluted food can kill your body, but polluted thoughts can kill your soul.

Contaminated thoughts will pollute your life. Quickly resist and reject them. Purity is important for your water, but even more important for your mind, your heart, and your soul. If your heart has been polluted, there is a purifier. (Malachi 3:3.)

Jesus is the antidote for the moral poison that is killing your conscience. “Taste and see that the Lord is good.” (Psalm 34:8)

Jesus “gave Himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for Himself a people that are His very own, eager to do what is good.” (Titus 2:14) How wonderful it is to be purified by Him and to daily allow Him to keep me from returning to uncleanliness. Thank You, Jesus!

Jesus wants to purify your heart from the contaminants that pollute it so that it can sparkle with His light and life. (Mt. 5:8) He wants to strengthen your heart “so that you will be blameless and holy” in His presence. (1 Thessalonians 3:13) Christ will create a clean heart in you. If you will allow Him to, He will continually purify you. (Ps 51:10)

Power can easily deceive human hearts and lead to spiritual compromise and casual Christianity. It’s extremely difficult to maintain a pure heart if you hold a position of great political or religious power. (Just look at all the corruption that has been exposed in religious organizations and human governments. Imagine what corruption is still hidden. Only the Holy Spirit can root it out.)

God’s prophets in the Bible didn’t hold government offices. Instead, from the outside looking in, they boldly spoke God’s truth to the people in power. They didn’t have political power. They had spiritual power that was mighty through God! (2 Corinthians 10:4)

Toxic religion doesn’t want the living Jesus. Like the religious Pharisees who wanted Him executed, religion tends to prefer a distant or a dead Jesus. It feels threatened by the risen Jesus.

The risen Jesus isn’t about religion or politics. He’s about the inner government of God that purifies human hearts and minds and produces love, joy, peace, hope, healing, and freedom. True Christianity isn’t about religion or politics. It’s about releasing and demonstrating love that “comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.” (1 Timothy 1:5)

Jesus wants to set people free from both the Pharoah of religion and the Pharoah of politics so they can be gloriously led by His Spirit. Let Jesus detox your mind and your emotions so He can make you clean and pure. (Titus 2:14)

It’s interesting that people who break immigration laws are called “illegals.” If we start calling people who break traffic laws “illegals,” every driver will be one. Can you name a driver who has never even once gone a bit (or a good bit) above the speed limit or gently (or rapidly) rolled through a stop sign? Although I drive slower and come to a complete stop as stop signs more often that the drivers around me, I still could get many speeding and stop sign running tickets every time I get behind the wheel, but I haven’t had one in decades because the laws are rarely enforced. If the government cracks down on traffic laws the way they are on immigration laws, all of us illegal drivers will be in trouble!

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