987A: God’s Boomerang Laws
The Word of God has a lot to say about cause and effect. At the outset of Matthew 7 and the corresponding passage in Luke 6, we find our Lord explaining some spiritual laws that appear to have even more direct cause-and-effect results; results that would always come back to the Christian in exact measure and in exactly the same area of the Christian's life. Jesus took four of the most crucial areas of Christian behavior and tied a boomerang to them, so they would return in the exact measure and to the exact place we let them go. They are the law of judging, the law of condemning, the law of forgiving and the law of giving. Which do we want coming back to us?