Happy are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord. Psalm 119:1.

Five left-handed thoughts about guilt and sex:

* ‘He has never done anything to be guilty of. What sort of man feels no guilt?’ (one Australian politician about another).

* ‘I don’t want to forgive myself. That’s why I hate psychoanalysis. I think if you’re guilty of something you should live with it’ (Orson Welles).

* ‘It doesn’t matter who you love, or how you love, but that you love’ (a homosexual defending his sexual orientation).

* ‘The only unnatural act is that which can’t be done.’

* ‘The world offers sex without guilt. The church for centuries has offered guilt without sex.’

The mixture of truth and error in the above should be obvious. God offers us both his law and his love. To ignore his laws is to be permissive; to be loveless is to deny the gospel. Law is to love as railway tracks are to a train. Both are important. All the propulsive power is in the train, but the tracks give the train direction. So don’t let the devil or anyone else separate law and love, which God has put together.

You have given us laws, eternal God, so that we may live well on this planet, protecting ourselves and others from evil, and enhancing our highest good. May I know your law, and may keeping it be a delight to me. And may I also know your forgiving love. Through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen.

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