One of the interesting ironies of life is that all too often those who take the “low road” arrive at the top, while those who take the “high road” do not. We see this all around us-- in businesses large and small, in every strata of government, in the entertainment industry, and most certainly in politics. But why is this so? Why is it that cheating and scheming are better strategies for achieving success in the world than are honesty and hard work? Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that we live not in one world but two: the social, financial and political world created by man and the natural world created by God. And it’s quite obvious to most that God’s world, for sheer elegance and consistency, has a decided edge over man’s. Man’s world, after all, is crude and disordered, while God’s is ingeniously structured and harmonious. God’s in anchored in truth; man’s is anchored in error. And because man’s world is anchored in error, we live in a condition of perpetual unsteadiness, where principles move and shift according to the needs and whims of the hour. Which brings to mind a provocative and frightening question, what if man controlled nature and the elements? How would it be, for example, if congress decided how much force gravity would exert? Or what if the freezing point of water was determined from month to month by a committee of scientists appointed by the president? How would we maintain any sense of order or stability in such a world? Let us therefore thank God that there still are some things we can depend on; that there still remain unchanging principles beyond the reach of man. And let us be grateful, too, that in God’s natural world the high road always leads to the top, and favors only those willing to put forth a sincere and honest effort.
