Finally, the universal moral law that’s part of your human conscience – your inner sense of right and wrong – is a sign of God’s majesty. As a human being, you instinctively know that some actions are simply good and others are simply evil. This natural feeling of right and wrong works like a quiet inner voice that inspires you to want justice and to feel good when you do something right and bad when you do something wrong.
Across different cultures and throughout history, people have always understood certain basic rights and wrongs. Ideas like fairness, justice, kindness, and respecting life are a natural part of all people, even though different societies might understand and apply these ideas differently. Where does this moral law come from? If humans are just products of random chance and survival of the fittest, then morality would just be something humans made up to get along in society. But your conscience tells you that’s not how it happened.
Romans 2:14-15 talks about how the moral law is written on people’s hearts: “Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing, sometimes even defending them.” God has written his moral law on the hearts of all people. That’s an important sign of God’s holiness and his desire for you to live a holy life in a relationship with him.
In conclusion, the world around you is like an open book, full of many wonderful signs of God’s majesty. By paying attention to these signs, you can discover a strong sense of awe that inspires you every day!
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