Free Forever – The Law of Liberty (21)

Free Forever

The Law of Liberty (21)

Readers will gain a better perspective on the main teaching of this series by reading The Ground for Christian Ethics, by T. M. Go to www.MyParuchia.com, click Publications, then click Waxed Tablet, and scroll down until you see this little volume.

Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I will keep it to the end. Psalm 119:33

Over the more than 40 years that I’ve been a Christian, a good many “fads” and “movements” have wafted in and out of the household of faith. At one time ecstatic spiritual gifts were all the rage; you had to have these if you were really and truly saved. Then there was a big push for “friendship evangelism,” which followed a big push for confrontational evangelism–going door-to-door, taking surveys, beach and mall outreaches, and so forth. “Serendipity” found its way into the Church at some point, even though I never really understood what that meant. And today we’re all about “contemporary” worship, emergent churches, and renewal. Wait long enough, though, and like the weather in Northern Virginia, things will change.

Is this our destiny to the end of history? To be a people prone to fickle fads, who can’t settle into anything for the long haul, but need always to have our fancy renewed by the “latest” thing? We’re like flotsam and jetsam on an ever-shifting ocean–going nowhere, contributing nothing, but glad to be still afloat.

The Law of God is unchanging and forever. God calls us to keep the way of His statutes all the way to the end of our lives and the end of history itself. The Law of God does not change; it is not subject to our approval or disapproval. God has given it to us for our good and His glory, and Jesus expects us to make it the centerpiece of our Kingdom lives (Matt. 5:17-19).

These days Christians have trouble believing that the Law of God is a source of freedom. That may be due, at least in part, to the fact that many believers have never given themselves to serious, long-term study and obedience of the Law of God. There’s no time like the present to begin. Cry out with the psalmist for God to teach you His Law, really teach you, so that your mind, heart, and conscience are liberated, and you see the new practices God offers you as the way of escape through Satan’s every snare–learn the Law like this, and you will want to learn it more, and to live in its freedom forever.

Daily meditation in the Law of God helps us along the path of holiness, righteousness, and goodness (Rom. 7:12). Order your copy of The Law of God, a compilation of the Mosaic Law for contemporary believers, by going to www.MyParuchia.com, point your browser to “Publications,” then click on the drop-down option, “Waxed Tablet Publications.”

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T.M. Moore.

T.M. Moore is editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Editor’s note: The use of a translation other than the Authorised Version in an article does not constitute an endorsement in whole or in part by The Christian Observer.