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If a man gets caught driving without insurance, and comes before the judge to plead his case with evidence of what a good man he is, what do you think the outcome would be?
He says, "Your honor, I may be guilty in this one area but I have never littered, in fact, I have even been known to pick up other peoples garbage from time to time. I let little old ladies go first in line at Wal-Mart (if they only have a few things), and I always return my shopping cart to the cart coral. Don't you see how unfair it would be to punish me for this one minor infraction? I know that you are a good, kind, and loving man. Couldn't you find it in your heart to just let this one slide?"
How do you think this scenario would end?
My mind plays out his response going something like this.
"Yes, I am a good man, and that is precisely why I am going to do the job that was given me, that is to judge crime. You are clearly guilty of driving without insurance. None of the other acts of kindness done throughout your life can change that fact any more than if a murderer were to jump into a river and save a drowning man could change the fact that he had killed the first."
I see a gavel coming down and a hefty fine being laid on the shoulders of the law breaker.
But what if someone from the back of the room stood up and said, "I'll pay his fine." How would this man respond? would it be logical for him to ignore the judge, ignore the generous man in the back and walk out of that court room to continue on in his life as if it had never happened? Would his stubbornness change the fact that his days of roaming the streets a free man where numbered?
God cannot be perfectly merciful and perfectly just without the biblical plan of salvation.
I had my day in court, accepted the offer to have my fine paid, and have walked through the doors to eternity free and clear.
Where are you?
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16
