Opus 2024-429: To…From…

I continue my study and meditation on the law given to Moses in the Old Testament.  Actually, it’s bigger than that because it goes back to the first chapter of Genesis and continues on to the law’s fulfillment in Jesus as the Messiah.

What is in my mind is that the law was not given to vindicate God, or to improve His image.  The law was given to benefit mankind.  It was specifically delivered to the Jews to mold thim as a people and to be passed on to the rest of the world.  The law was for us to make our lives better.

It may not seem that way to you.  It may seem confining.  To be honest there are points where it seems a bit silly and picky to me.  But I have this conviction that God has a reason for everything He does, and even imagine the command not to plant a tree in the temple courtyard has significance for us today.  Just because we don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t a good idea to follow it.  Think of all the things that your parents told you not to do and you just had to try.  We had a bush in our yard.  I had walked over it and around it many times.  If I had known that was full of prickers, I would have told you to stay away from it.  If you insisted on sitting in the middle of it, you would experience what my grandson went through as we spent a long time pulling the tiny little needles out of him.

I still have a long way to go in studying the law.  I imagine I will repeat things quite a bit.  I am convinced that God is on our side or as I think Abraham Lincoln said, we should be on his side, and everything He does is designed to make that more likely.

So I study the law. I am trying to learn to love the law the way David did.  I also want to make sure that I don’t misuse the law the way Paul was so concerned about in the New Testament.

The journey continues.

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