Speeding into Sin

For Spring Break this year our family decided to go to North Carolina and visit friends. It was a very good vacation. It was busy, but I think we all got to spend some time with people that we spent so much time with when we lived there.
On the way down there, and then back home I was struck by how many people speed. I have noticed this before of course, but this time for some reason it really struck me as proof that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
There are signs posted all over the place as to what the speed limit is, and as Ted Koppel of ABC's Nightline once said about the Ten Commandments, "They are the Ten Commandments not the Ten Suggestions.". The same applies to speed limit signs, they are limits to how fast you can drive, not a speed suggestion. And yet so many people throw caution to the wind and drive much faster than what they should.
Of course there are those that know they are speeding and don't want to get caught so they buy police radar detectors. Then there are those that just don't care. But when a police car enters the scene it is amazing how many people don't even drive the speed limit, they drive a little under the speed limit.
What really amazes and saddens me is how many Christians speed. If there are people out there who should know better it's us. But I have seen many little fishes speed by just like everybody else.
I think our relationship to God (whether you actually know Him or not) and sin is a lot like speeding. There are some people that just don't care. They will cheat, lie, get drunk, do drugs, swear, steal, ect, ect. every single day and won't think anything of it. There are those people that will take a calculated risk at not getting caught at whatever activity they are involved in hoping they won't get caught. All these people are wanting is to get a little ahead, live a more exciting life, show that they are above accountability, "the rules don't apply to me!".
If you speed enough you will get caught and you will be held accountable. The faster you go they stiffer the consequence. Sin is just like that too. Though God sees sin as sin, no one sin greater than another, the consequences of some sin is greater than some others. God weeps over sin, and Satan just laughs. But even he will be held accountable one day, just as you will if you continue to speed.