Ronald Reagan famously said, “the government that governs best governs least.” The idea seems to have been that a society with the maximum of freedom, no regulations or rules, would be the best. This is not the way the Bible thinks. (It wasn’t the way the Founding Fathers thought either but that is another discussion.) In the Bible, having the law, following the rules that God lays down, is the cause of greatest human happiness. Jesus said, “Whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven.” According to the Scripture the greatest danger is not some external force but rather the compulsions that dwell within each of us — greed, anger, lust, envy, resentment. The law saves us from ourselves.
