“Walk on his smooth straight road.” Not only do we let God be God as he really is, but we start doing the things for which he made us. We take a certain route; we follow certain directions; we do specified things. There are ethical standards to follow, there are moral values to foster, there are spiritual disciplines to practice, there is social justice to pursue, there are personal relationships to develop. None of it is difficult to understand. “Mere ethics,” quipped Austin Farrer once, “call for no such august or mysterious explanation; next to plumbing, morality is social convenience
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