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There is something about being told what to do that we do not like.
It is not only children.
There is something about our make up, our striving for independence, and maybe so more in the western world than anywhere else.
Do not tell me what to do.
If I want it it should be mine!
I should be aloud to go where I want to go and do what I want to do.
And anyone or especially any group of people who claim a better way to live is suspect.
We should be free to do what we want
BUT that only works to a certain point.
at some point we have to trust that warning signs and guardrails are there for our safety, and they have been put their by someone concerned.
Some seem self evident: Pics #1-#3
But when it comes to more serious things it doesn’t matter too much whether I like the warnings:
So I make my own rules works up might work, until you come to the fence that says, drop off.
Cause gravity doesn’t care bout how you feel.
When we purchase a cleaning product, or a tool.
Often what we will find is that there are instructions and there are warnings.
And those are important.
They tell us how to use and how not to use.
Right.
So that we use the tool or the product properly and to the best of its ability and we do not use it in a way that will cause harm to us and to others.
WE just bought come new shearers for our garden.
(bring them)
They are meant for cutting our bushes, trimming the hems, they are not meant to play sports with.
If we use them correctly, they work well, if we use them incorrectly they will not only fail to cut the bushes well, but they could also harm us; right.
Using it incorrectly, also means that what is in our possession will last longer and serve us better.
When we drive on bridges, medians or around corners we see guardrails.
They are meant to direct and protect us.
PAUSE
There is another section on the packaging of certain products, that follows the instruction, that follows the warning.
What is that called?
In Case of Emergency: (come back to this idea)
If ingested:..call this number, drink ipecac, induce vomiting,
Those come after the warnings.
The hope is that we will not get there!!
But if we do, hope is not lost.
(we will come back to that in a few weeks)
direct ane protect
When we drive we find guardrails, meant to direct us and protect us.
AND HERE IS THE THING
and although we might find it annoying to follow instructions, and dislike being confined The inconvenience of obeying instructions, or hitting a guardrail, is minimum compared to the inconvenience and damage we experience if we do not pay attention to them.
PAUSE
So the reason we want to talk about Hazards and instructions and warnings, is because although we might be very careful to pay attention to the warnings on the package of cleaner or follow the instructions on the IKEA furniture packaging so that we do not end up frustrated and wasting our time, we often do not pay attention to instruction and warning in our lives.
And many of us would say that many of the regrets we might have in our lives when it comes to relationships, decisions we’ve made, maybe stuff that has plagued us for a time, came about because we ignored warning, ignored instruction, ignored or rejected the hazard signs, and thought to ourselves....”not me”.
“I am the exception.”
And we find ourselves on the other side of some damaging decisions and think, If I had listened, if I had put in place guardrails, this would be a different story.
in my marriage, in my business, in my finances if I had placed guardrails this would be different.
And here is the thing:
Future regrets can be avoided if we are willing to heed warning, accept instruction and place guardrails in our lives.
NOW here is the problem....
We live in a culture that for the most part is happy to ignore warnings, submission to instructions or to call for help.
We don’t like barriers, we like lines drawn with coloured chalk, so they can be erased and moved when they are inconvenient.
PAUSE
So....have you ever gone to use a product you purchased a while back and you want to use it, but for some reason way back when you pealed the packaging off the bottle, so you have no idea how to mix it, if it is corrosive, if it is strong enough, how to apply it properly.
As a culture this is happening everywhere.
When it comes to issues of sexual misconduct, #metoo movement, we tossed the label off sexuality long ago and now we are trying to improvise instead of going back to healthy sexuality.
So, if you were to be watching the news 5 months back you would hear many in Hollywood crying out saying “How can sexual abuse be going on in Hollywood, why do men think this is ok, and in between news stories of sexual abuse and confused outrage, would be commercials for the latest 50 Shades of Grey movie!!
See the problem with a culture that says we don’t need instruction, don’t tell us what is hazardous, is that it looses its footing when it comes to trying to draw any proper boundaries for our lives.
We draw lines that are easily erased.
Culture doesn’t like guardrail and by the way often shames those who have them.
See we want to tear down all the fences, let everyone loose, an then we are confused and have no real answers when families fall apart, relationships are based on sexuality, children are broken and confused.
Following our hearts has ,meant that we knock down any fence we don’t like and proclaim our freedom.
But GK Chesterton says this and this is something our culture is not interested in.
And it is not interested in it, because we dismiss the past and believe we are the only authors of the future.
Gk Chesterton says this:
“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”
PAUSE
Some of us maybe got married, and they ripped off the label.
Maybe not at first, but at some point we knocked down the boundaries around our marriage, our sexuality, our eating our drinking.
ignored instruction and warning, ignored guardrails.
And now we are unsure how to fix things.
PAUSE
One thing would make it far easier to decide whether someone was out of line sexually in any circumstance.
Place sexuality within the guardrails of marriage.
We draw lines that are easily erased.
The 1960s brought us the sexual revolution, that said that we shouldn’t worry about who we sleep with, how many we sleep with, whether married or not, we should be free to do what we want.
Peel the label off through out any idea of what sex it meant for who it is meant for and do what you please.
Now when it comes to sexuality, because the top has been blown off it we need to talk about consent.
Now what is consent.
Consent is making sure that every step along the strange road of casual sex is agreed upon by both parties so that neither can be accused of rape.
And the reason this is an issue is because sex has been torn from commitment.
torn from an instruction outside of self.
The Chris
Sexual revolution
Culture doesn’t like guardrail and by the way often shames those who have them.
A culture that has thrown out the instruction label, the warning label, ignoring the guardrails when it comes to sexuality, and then wondering why many are getting hurt, many are perpetrating tainted sexuality.
And how do we even label something tainted.
At this point it can only be based on public outrage, since the one thing that can be agreed upon by those who are angry is that we should not place guardrails on our sexuality.
One thing would make it far easier to decide whether someone was out of line sexually in any circumstance.
Place sexuality within the guardrails of marriage.
Following our hearts has ,meant that we knock down any fence we don’t like and proclaim our freedom.
But GK Chesterton says this and this is something our culture is not interested in.
And it is not interested in it, because we dismiss the past and believe we are the only authors of the future.
Gk Chesterton says this:
“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”
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Throughout the series what I want you to do is look at some instruction, warnings we ought to heed so that we save ourselves from regret;
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And some would return to me time after time after time saying, man.....we messed up again.
Well, when is this happening?
1 am, in their basement, in the dark.
Guardrails come well before the danger.
Not during!!
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