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A book is a moral compass. It guides us, gives us direction, keeps us on track. We should choose our books well.

Thrilling Book Description: We Never Saw It Coming

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Historical Fiction

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Turn of the first century. The lives (and deaths) of those common people who built a cathedral.

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Ryan and Danique met by accident. When Danique had to bandage Ryan from a bullet wound.

A compass can deceive us. We need to choose our compass well.

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Allowing a compass to be even a little deceived can end in tragedy. In the physical realm, you can take the wrong path and end up at the wrong destination. Those who claim that the journey is the “thing,” end up going nowhere.

We rely on a compass to point us in the right direction, because we know the destination. Without a destination in mind, a compass becomes a useless burden.

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But can we always trust our compass? Can it lose it’s ability to guide us?

• We could smash it. End of clear direction.
• We could lose it. End of clear direction.
• We can intentionally demagnetize it, because it interferes with electronic devices or it just needs to be disposed of.
• We can also accidentally demagnetize it. Set it down too close to a fire and leave it long enough to destroy its magnetic dipoles that provide orientation. Hit it with a hard object just hard enough to destroy its magnetism. Dropping it onto a hard object.
• We could intentionally demagnetize it. Passing a strong AC current through it, or placing a magnet in a magnetic field of a compass, or applying a magnetic field with the opposite polarity beyond the polarity reversal, then stopping the field source (“knockdown demagnetization”).

Most people throw away a broken compass and buy another one.

A Moral Compass

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A physical compass and a moral compass have four things in common.

  • First, a source outside ourselves that we choose to listen to.

    • If we listen to another human being, we are taking advice from someone just like ourselves, who also needs a moral compass.

    The only source outside ourselves that doesn't need outside guidance is God. God is His own source of guidance.

  • Second, guidance. Why have a compass if we don’t allow it to guide us?

If we listen to another person, we can never be sure that person is right. If we listen to God, He's right all the time and every time. Why? Because He knows everything and doesn't depend on humans for help.

  • Third, every culture has both physical guidance and moral guidance systems.

No exceptions. Cultural moral guidance systems are fallible. They can fail. God's system never fails. Humans just don't listen.

  • Fourth, both can be broken or even destroyed.

Human nature destroys things, including cultures. God destroys evil and builds good out of evil.

Ask yourself these three questions.

1. Why do I trust other people's compasses? What if they are wrong?

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2. If God is only perfect compass, how will my friends and relatives react to my change?

What if they reject me?

3. What's the best way to make use of God's moral compass?

Read the Bible. This website can help you with that.

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