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Jas 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

Today that verse was driven home for me as I was pulled over for my first speeding ticket ever. After driving away, ticket in wallet I went through a few phases.

For the first twenty minutes I expounded on the Pig's lack of mercy and his complete inability to notice that I was a 30 year old woman, never before cited for speeding trying to get passed a car on a two lane road quickly so as not to endanger anyone and he is going to give me a ticket! I was incensed to say the least and considered from all angles the possibility that his parents were never married and that his short stature had contributed to my getting a ticket. He saw that I was taller and this set him off, he couldn't then just say, this is a warning.

After the initial 20 minutes of rage there came the justifications. Did he not know that I had been on the road for two hours and I hadn't been speeding at all!!?? Only this moment that I passed that stupid truck that had been driving iradically! What was I supposed to do? Stay behind him and put up with his dangerous driving?

After that 20 minutes I moved into, well, maybe God let him pull me over because something worse was going to happen up ahead if I was on the road so I needed to be slowed down by getting a ticket.

Then I went to, well, I was breaking the law, plain and simple. There is no mercy in the Law. That was the point of the Old Testament. Jesus is the mercy, I need Him for my salvation because I'm guilty of the whole law. He caught me breaking it, no matter if it was the only time that day, I had been speeding. . . No ifs, ands or buts. So I simply sighed and said good bye to 130 dollars that my wonderful husband was working so hard for so I could stay home and take care of our baby. God is great, Mark is good and Joshua is adorable and safe. Who knows what might have been and thankfully I just got a ticket!