“The heart is deceitful above all things,
And desperately wicked;
Who can know it?
I, the Lord, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give every man according to his ways,
According to the fruit of his doings." (Jeremiah 17:9-10)
Why
the Law was given to humanity? It wasn't given us to keep with
whatsoever cost and might we muster, but to teach us whatever we think
and do in the flesh is wrong and how corrupt and selfish in heart we
are. No matter what, we must abide in the Law, otherwise there is no
life. The problem is that we don't have power to keep it. Here, in due
time, our Lord Jesus Christ has offered a way to obey
it through His death, burial, and resurrection. He gave His own life
unto us, demonstrating the love that frees the enslaved humanity in
full. The Law spells out what the true love is. In Christ Jesus the
Lord, we can abide in the Law because we are under grace, not under the
law. Love fulfills the Law. To love God is to obey His commandments by
grace He provides. His commandments are love one another. Love the
unlovely, forgive the unforgivable, accept the unacceptable, endure the
unendurable, forebear the scruples of the weak, not with our own might,
but with the resurrection power.
This is the good news. Lord
Jesus invites us to the way of the cross in order to give us rest and
dynamics to obey Him now and forevermore. He searches and tests the depth of heart and mind.
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