Lawlessness

by J. Miller | Category: Voices From The Past - Extracted From Jottings | Oct 1981

It is the fashion of the world today to "set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities". Insubjection and lawlessness have swept over the nations like the floodtide, and changes have taken place which are not for the better but for the worse. Changes should ever be welcomed where wrongs are righted, and where fundamental errors are corrected, but where the well-defined landmarks of what is proper to divine rule in God's moral government amongst men are removed, and the whole area of man's responsibility to God and his mutual responsibility to his fellow men is left like an uncharted ocean, how may humanity steer a straight course to a haven of tranquillity, of amity, of peace, progress and prosperity?

But, as the apostle says of the present arrangement of things, "The fashion of this world passeth away" (1 Cor. 7:31). H9w soon the wind may pass over it, and the flowers, fair in the eyes of the present generation - the freedom of speech and the liberty of the press, with the well-nigh endless profusion of such-like things - will have perished, and the world will take on a new fashion, and the rule of One Lawless Will will subject every other, and the democrat will yield servile obedience to the autocrat; for then The Man will have come to whom the world will bow. He will be the world's man, for the world's fashion will have changed; and he will also be the devil's man, the incarnation of the most Satanic forms of lawlessness and error.

We turn from viewing this restless sea, this wild waste of turbulent waters, and look on One, so calm and dignified, so compassionate and merciful. Here in a world of woe He stood, to wipe woe's tears from human cheeks; subject in a scene of insubjection, to raise again amidst the ruins of human revolt a witness to God's will, whose goodwill makes heaven what it is. Mary Magdalene, John, James, Peter, were amongst the early trophies of His love and truth. To their number others joined themselves and of their best they gave. Here was a subject people, though but a few and feeble folk, poor in the world's goods, but rich in faith and heirs of the present kingdom and of the one to come. For in both phases of God's kingdom one essential truth is seen - the full subjection of the human will to God's, and the complete acknowledgement of the mind of God that placed authority in the hand of Jesus Christ, His Son, our Lord.

J. Miller | Oct 1981
Voices From The Past - Extracted From Jottings