‘O,
how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. You, through Your
commandments, make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. I
have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my
meditation.” Psalm 119:97-99
Because
of St. Paul’s words (“You are not under law; you are under grace”), Christians
do not typically spend much time “meditating” on the Law. We have been
conditioned to believe that while the Law is nice to know and important to
learn for context, the Law is not really who we are. More is the
pity.
It
seems to me that because we have so removed ourselves from the need or even the
desire to know – let alone “meditate” on – the Law, we have completely removed
our Teacher from His appropriate context and have assigned Jesus supernatural
power independent of the Holy God. We fail to understand Jesus’ very
words and lessons that are actually expositions and expressions of the Law and
how that Law practically applies to discipleship and the people of faith even
today.
The
words of the psalmist, however, must be engaged. We can surely see as the
writer sees that the Law is much more than list of ten “thou shalt not’s” – but
only if we “meditate” on the WHOLE Word, not just some of them. The Lord,
“through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies”.
We learn from the Law in a very real way, a life-giving and life-sustaining
way. And this, it should be clear from Christian theology, is our Holy
Father’s ultimate desire for His people.
The
Law is clearly for us; not against us.
Blessings,
Michael
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