+ It is essential for
us as Christians – especially because of our Jewish spiritual
roots – to be conscious of our participation in the Law of God! While most everyone gets a
negative feeling when the word “law” is mentioned: actually, as far as God
intended it, “law” is not meant to produce such an effect: in fact, it was
meant to produce quite the opposite one. For the Jewish person was meant to understand
law not as a restriction, but as a boundary
for free positive action! It was not so much to be a restrictive regimen as
a framework so that the people could know they were doing right, good and proper
things to show their love for God: God gave us this gift, then, so that we
would always know how we stood with him!
Because this was the intent of
the Law, when Jesus came he made it very clear that he had not come to abolish it, but to fulfill it: to show by his
own life and works exactly what it all
entails – especially the joy and the peace and the forgiveness that can come
from it. He did this by summarizing it all in one word: LOVE! Law is love! Love
me! Love my Father! Love one another as we love you! Lay down your lives for one another – in ways great and small as I [will do] for you – and you will
not be worried about “rules, regulations and prescriptions” – you will simply
be experiencing a fullness of life, and a freedom that you never thought
possible!
May we today find happiness in
knowing that law leads to life and love
and freedom and joy and peace – and that obedience to it (in all its
manifestations) is the absolute best way to glorify the Giver of it –
the One who loves us all so very, very much! God our heavenly Father!
As
we proceed into another day of bracing ourselves for the full effects of the
Corona Virus Disease – 2019 may we “follow the law (that is already deep in our
hearts) and let it lead to life, love, freedom, joy and peace as we reach out –
now paradoxically – to help others by NOT being physically near them, by
following the “laws of the land” in this time of turmoil – and by embracing
this time that God is giving us to “go deep inside ourselves” to find God and peace,
and joy, and freedom, and love and life, that has always been there pure
untainted and bubbling forth with protection, safety and HEALTH! It’s time to
learn how to be Mindful, to Meditate, and to be truly silent and still in order
to find the God who is always searching for us!
Your
words are Spirit and life; you have the words of everlasting life!
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