I have on occasion had the
opportunity to live for weeks on end in the wild completely free from
civilization. A life where warmth was
only available from the sun or fire and water from a cold mountain stream. I can remember one day standing in a high mountain
meadow all alone. I looked at the sky,
the mountains around me, the earth I stood upon and for the first and only time
it dawned on me the complete autonomy of man.
How was I to become moral? I knew
in that moment that if left to my own devises, the only ones I had at that
moment, my inclinations would often be immoral.
How was I to govern myself? At
that moment I fully understood my absolute need for Christ.
Amen.
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