We Live in a Dangerous World

Guns don’t kill people, sex doesn’t make people immoral, and wine doesn’t make drunkards.  We live in a dangerous world, a world filled with dangerous things that we are to receive with thankfulness from God and with which we are to steward this world to the glory of His name.  Yes, alcohol is dangerous.  So is food.  So is music.  So is sex.  So are electricity and knives and nuclear power.  So is social media.  So are cars and trains and spaceships.  So is prosperity.  So is the office of teaching.  So is parenting.  So what?  In all of these gifts, we have to grow up to maturity; we have to learn how to use them and how to not let them become idols that control us.  Therefore, the charge to the drunkard and the rule-nazi is this:  grow up!