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The Law Mirrors God's Character By John Leitch God's law is a reflection of His character. His laws guide and help us in developing our character.
few years ago a friend pointed out to me how God and His law are described by the same words. As Christians, we will find it interesting and important to compare the scriptures that describe God, to those that describe His law. The parallel is both astonishing and telling. Here is a partial list to consider.
Righteous
Truth
Goodness
Everlasting
Holiness
Love
Perfection
Spiritual
Just
Light If we as Christians sometimes find the law of God disagreeable, then it could signal it's time for some serious fasting and soul-searching to find why we might have this frame of mind. Do we really think the Father gave us His law to punish us and make our life miserable? It is important that all Christians be Christ-centered and be imitators of the way He lived His human life (1 Peter 2:21).
Reader, I appeal to your common sense. Look out the window and ask yourself, "Has the earth disappeared?" Christ loved his Father's law and walked in obedience to it and so should we. It is not the hearers of the law that are righteous in God's sight, but the people who practice and obey the law (Romans 2:13). The only place the early New Testament Church could go to prove all things (1 Thessalonians 5:21) was the Old Testament. The New Testament was not put together for many years after the death of Christ. Malachi recorded in Malachi 4:4, "Moses, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments."
The carnal mind has a strong dislike for God's law (Romans 8:7). It finds all kinds of reasons and excuses not to keep the law, but to reach the Kingdom of God, a converted Christian is expected to obey God (Matthew 19:16-19). After leaving one's spiritual Egypt, Christians have a long difficult journey through a dark world. Does anyone realistically think he can reach God's Kingdom, without God's perfect law of love to light the way? To learn more about God's law, read our free booklets and Copyright 2007 by United Church of God, an International Association All rights reserved. |
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