Free to Be What God Intends – The Law of Liberty (24)

Free to Be What God Intends

The Law of Liberty (24)

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.

…the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart… Psalm 19:8

The devil loves to sow perplexity into the ranks of men. He creates confusion and uncertainty concerning our purpose in life–why we are here and what we can expect to accomplish–and leaves many people thrashing against the unknown in search of something meaningful. So frustrating can this quest for purpose be that many have concluded that life has no purpose at all. It’s absurd and meaningless; nevertheless, people are of such a nature that we just have to lash out against that and dash ourselves on the rocks of meaninglessness (think: Fox TV’s Gregory House).

The Law of God delivers us from a purposeless life. The precepts of the Lord, David tells us, are “right.” The Hebrew word here is actually, “upright,” and matches Solomon’s observation in Ecclesiastes 7:29, in which he describes “upright” as the original condition in which God made human beings. People were made to know God and to live in harmonious, just, and loving community before Him–upright. Sin and our many selfish schemes have caused us to bend away from that original condition, but the Law of God has power to set us back on our proper course.

The Law, in other words, liberates us into a meaningful life. By giving us insight into God’s original intentions for human life in society, the Law resonates with that deep-seated need in our souls to know why we’re here and what we’re supposed to be doing. We don’t have to ponder every faddish philosophical scheme or experiment with every new system of ethics that comes along in order to know what’s best for our lives. In the Law of God we have a “blueprint for uprightness,” for living, that is, as God made us to live.

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, and 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 these companion volumes.

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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.