lovin' the law

Something else that has really been leaping out at me in our recent readings of the Israelites is how God instructed them to teach the law to their children and their children's children.

And not only to teach and keep the law, but to love the law.



'Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and to bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sitest in thin house, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates." Deut. 11: 18-2o



And remember this was not just God's instructions to His people then, but to His people now!! Which is us!!

But today I see a lack of teaching of God's laws. And a lack of love for His laws.

Not only is His law not seeming to be taught, but in fact trying to weasel a way out of it. Trying to find area in Paul's teaching to get a way from the law.

This should not be so among God's people.

"But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto Him with all your heart and with all your soul." Joshua 22:5

"O that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it may be well with them, and their children forever. " Deut. 5: 29

"O how love I thy law! It is my mediation all the day." Psalm 119: 97

" I have longed for thy salvation, O lord: and the law is my delight." Psalm 119: 174

"But his delight is in the law of the lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night." Psalm 1:2

"My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandment with thee. So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding." Proverbs 2:2


It seems the love for the law has been lost some where. It even seems to be viewed to some as burdensome. If the law can be managed to be done away with, then one feels free.

But we are to be free by fulfilling the law!!

God's law is to be a joy to us!



Here is what Jesus said about the law .



" Think not that i have come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy but to fulfil.

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5: 17-19



Also in the book of John we read:



"But this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments: ans his commandments are not grievous." 1 John 5: 2-3



"And hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.

He that's saith , I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him." 1 John 2: 3-4



We need to get back to where God wanted His people to be. We need to be a people that loves God's laws, and obeys God's laws, and teaches God's laws to our children.

My oldest son had a conversation once with another child about the Sabbath day, and why we keep it. Upon hearing my son say we keep it because it is in the 10 commandments, the child's quick reply was, " oh there's a mystery behind that commandment."
I was shocked. Not only was this child not taught to keep the law, but already at that early age he was taught how to make accuse for not keeping all the law or commandments.



I see a trend today loving this world and wanting the things and the pleasures that this world gives, and so much so that there is a need to try to get out of some laws to do it. People want both the world and its pleasures, and still have God as well. But it doesn't work that way.

We have to Love God way more than this world.

"Love not this world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Farther is not in him." 1 John 2: 15



And as I see it, if our love for God is as it should be, then it will be our heart's only desire and joy to to obey His Law. We will not desire any other way. We will be free and doing exactly as we please, which will be freely doing only that which is pleasing to God.

I think God so longs for His people to gain back a love for the law.

"But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." James 1:25

In Him, Mae