The Manufacturer's Specifications

     My husband is an aircraft mechanic. He has thick books of instructions for the use and maintenance of each aircraft. The pilots also have manuals and go to school for certification before they can fly the plane. The manufacturer determines when components must be examined, repaired or replaced and how their aircraft is to be used. There are no manuals stating "Do whatever feels best to you." We, too, have a manufacturer. He is called God. And He has specifications for how his creation and creatures are to function. The animals and galaxy do not seem to have trouble with those rules. We humans do. In spite of that, He has the right, as our manufacturer, to make those decisions. And He has the right motive because He loves us and desires what is best for us.
     My husband's manuals are continually updating. God's does not. It is called the Bible. It records many times His expertly crafted people decided to fly by the seat of their pants, as we do now. No one wants to ride in an airplane maintained to standards the mechanic merely feels good about, we want to know it is safe to fly. If airplanes were crashing due to lax standards, the solution would not be a media campaign to lower our expectations about safety. Trying to normalize plane crashes by showing them as part of everyday life in television episodes or advertising would not make them acceptable.
     Abuse of God's standards is seldom as public or dramatic as a plane crash, but also results in wrecked relationships, lives and even death. Of course, many today deny the existence of a Manufacturer, much less His right to determine our standards. So who does have that right? Certainly not the majority, because our whole culture is being hijacked by the demands of the few in the name of social justice or political correctness. So if the majority is not, and the minority should not, set standards for the rest of us, who has that authority? Even the supposed Big Bang does not have the power to bang out moral standards for its by-product beings. Governments are corrupt, individuals are selfish and lazy. We have thrown out the maintenance manual, traded our compassionate captain for an aimlessness autopilot, and we wonder why our journey no longer feels safe. The problem is, when we reject the Manufacturer's specifications, there are no suitable replacements. We are flying blind.