📏The Rules Make Sense🤥

You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequences of your choice. Zig Ziglar 

2 Thessalonians 3:7 (KJV) For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

Verse 6 says “withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly”   

Disorderly? If you and I are to withdraw ourselves from those who walk disorderly then we are going to have to know what is disorderly wouldn’t you think? We watch a football game and we hear the referee say unsportsmanlike conduct number 6 offensive, 15 yard penalty. Unsportsmanlike conduct is a violation of sport's generally accepted rules of sportsmanship. Which includes verbal abuse, taunting of an opponent or a game official, an excessive celebration following a significant play, or feigning injury. The rule book says……….Oh there's a rule book? Oh yeah there is a rule book in all sports, the place of employment, at school, at college. Go into the military and there are more rules than one can keep up with. Ever heard anybody say “that’s a crazy rule!” Rules are made for a purpose. I’m sure your place of employment has a rule like being on time. How would you feel if you got to work on time 8:00 and someone else got to work as soon as they could 10:30. Come payday and you both get the same amounts on your checks. Now does the rule make sense? On the sport field there’s a flag thrown but in life there isn’t. What would you think if you said something that wasn’t right and out of nowhere someone runs up and drops a flag? Then says “abuse and celebrating anger $1500 dollars. Would you think before you spoke words of anger? I think so. Paul says now that you have watched us walk orderly among you, you know how to walk order. Paul says we have set the example so that you will do the same. Before you can withdraw from the disorderly you first have to know what is orderly. I remember working for a company that took the week of July 4 off. Which is not unusual. We worked 7-3 but the day before we took off they all decided to work 6-2. That was impossible for me to do because the nursery where I kept my children didn’t open until 6:30. I told my boss that I couldn’t and told him the reason why. Where I worked was a production job and losing an hour was not acceptable. He told me to come in at the same time 7 I did. When I arrived his boss was waiting for me. As I walked in the door he jumped in my face and started screaming at me like a drill sergeant. Without thinking I jumped back at him and said somethings, oh I didn’t use foul language as he was but I did get a little loud. He then told me to come to his office. On the way I began to think about what had just happened. He may have not acted the way he should have but I should have responded differently. I told myself that I needed to apologize to him for my actions. When we entered his office he sat down and the anger was still there. I could read it on his face. Before he could speak I said “may I say something?”I  said I owe you an apology for my actions.” He looked at me and like putting water on a fire his whole demeanor changed and from that point on we spoke in soft words. I did that because it was the right thing to do not to soften him for I didn’t know it would soften. He wasn’t my boss but he was my supervisor and I needed to show respect. I learned that from the rule book, my Bible. 

Hebrews 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves:  Paul said “you know how because we lived a disciplined life among you.” Are you or do you know anyone like that?