+ 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!
Your
words are Spirit and life; you have the words of everlasting life!
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