Can You Cheat
a Little, If No One Gets Hurt?
I did my quarterly taxes yesterday and was reminded of the
message of a youth at church on Sunday. He said: “Is it okay to cheat a little,
if no one is looking?” Who exactly is watching each of us as we fudge a little
here, take a some pens and paper home from work, steal Sweet & Low from restaurants, and check out in the 15 and Under line when we know we have
20 items?
This is a great question for those who are looking to
understand a little more about spiritual growth and accountability—not to God,
your neighbors, or the government—but, to yourself. You see, you don’t really
cheat anyone in this world, because most of it is simply and ego elusion. You
don’t own 15 acres and have millions of dollars. You simply borrow it on time
from the world. Everything in this universe is going away eventually, including
your physical body. What you see around you is a scenario, perhaps, you built
to help teach you important lessons about life.
Definitely, most equivocally, the most important lesson in
life is to be honest and authentic about who you are, what you represent, and
what you choose to gain from life. If you don’t know the answers to these
questions, your first order of spiritual business is to begin a search your
heart for answers.
Personally, I look at situations in life with a spiritual
litmus test. If you don’t know what a litmus test is, it is a particular die
that turns red for acid and blue for alkaline. Metaphorically, it means a test
to be sure you are doing the right thing. I ask myself a few questions about
things that confuse or befuddle me:
1. Am I doing
what I do out of fear?
2. Am I doing
what I do out of guilt?
3. Am I doing
what I do for self-gain?
4. Am I
making this choice out of spite?
5. Am I at
peace with this decision?
6. What
exactly would be gained or lost should I choose to do this?
All of these questions are pertinent in your discovery of
authentic truth. Let’s take choosing the 15
and Under line when you have 20 items. We have to remember that nothing is
as simple as black and white. If it were, there would be little to learn in
lessons such as these. Let’s take the litmus test.
Question 1: Yes, I think I might be late if I wait for the
longer line. 2:) No. 3) Yes, definitely. 4.) no. 5) Yes, because no one is
waiting in that line, and I wouldn’t be hurting anyone if I went to that line.
6.) I will be on time for an appointment, which helps me to be more considerate
of someone else’s time.
So, you see, what may have looked like an easy answer,
actually, turned out to be to do what looks wrong. I always ask myself another
question: “Am I just programmed to believe that stepping over some boundaries
is bad or will what I’m doing get me demerits with God?”
My answer to that question is that God is not keeping
score. We are subconsciously keeping our tabulation on ourselves and it affects
our self-esteem greatly if we don’t have answers to the questions that disturb
us.
I think of Jesus breaking the Judaic law by healing the
sick on the Sabbath. We can easily see that one law of love is greater than the
pedantic law of the Sabbath. I believe that Jesus showed us over and over again
that our relationship with ourselves and with God is dependent on having the
heart of a child—open, transparent, and loving.
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