The Necessity of the law
Psalms 119:97 “O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.”
Psalms 119:113 “I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.”
Psalms 119:163 “I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.”
By what standard will we govern our lives? This is, I believe, the greatest battle of our day in the Christian circles. From the passages just read we can see that David knew what would govern his life. Will we be like David and govern our lives by the Word of God and his law? Or will we govern our lives based on what man believes and says?
If we ask any Christian what their answer to those two questions we will almost always be given the first response. But in reality, when that is professed is it really being acted out in the lives of the people that say that. Are we living by every Word of God? Do we really believe that the Bible speaks to every area of life? Or is the Bible simply a set of spiritual maxims that teach us how to commune with God and be “saved” but does not deal with the whole man in how we deal with people in our lives and conduct our everyday actions, how government is run, how the church is run, and how the family should be set up and functions? I would have us consider that God’s word does speak to every area of our lives and that he has given us in his word his law that we are to obey.
