Warnings!

I have a calendar that each day had a label, directions or sign that is humorous.  Here is today's:

From the PillowSac Rocking Chair - Do not eat The Rocker or anything included with the Rocker, including, but not limited to, nuts, bolts, tags, cardboard, packaging, plastics bags, plastic pieces, Styrofoam, unpopped popcorn kernels, etc.  Attempting to eat these things may result in injury, death, or at the very least, discomfort while passing these items through your digestive system from entry to exit."

My first response to this was wondering what do someone actually do that would cause the company to have their attorney write up this statement?  Did someone actually eat the rocking chair?  Or the cardboard?  These things are such no-brainers to me that I don't know why a statement is needed.  But those who made the rocking chair wanted to make sure that people were safe from themselves.  So they wrote that statement.

In the same way, some of the laws and decrees from the Old Testament seem to be no-brainers, but God needed to state them. I couldn't even conceive of doing some of the things that are prohibited.  Just read Leviticus 18.  God was warning His people that certain actions are harmful to the community and to their relationship to God.  As the creator of humans, He desired that we be safe.

God then ended many of the decrees with: I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD.  As much as we want to question God's rules and laws, we need to constantly remember that this is God speaking.  He is the Lord.  When we are tempted to break these rules, we must keep in constant thought that God wants us safe, secure and living well.