Laws

Did you ever hear this saying?  “Laws are made to be broken.”  I have heard this at different times and even said it a few times myself.  This is like someone getting in your face and saying you cannot do so and so.  Many people, me included, want to say, “Who are you to tell us what we can do and what we can’t do, who do you think you are?”  Even believers have a struggle with this; they break God’s laws plus they break society’s laws also.

Think about this, when the law says the speed limit is 30 or 55 or 65 miles an hour, how many exceed those limits purposely?  How many ride without seat belts on themselves or maybe their kids or how many purposely text on their cell phones or talk on their cell phones while driving?  How many times have you come to a red light to make a right turn and made the turn on red without stopping and then going?  At one time or other most of us are guilty of breaking one or more of these laws.

Then there are God’s laws that non-believers break and so do believers.  I think many believers think because they live in the day of grace, and are not under the law, they don’t have to worry about keeping God’s law.  Just because we live in the day of grace doesn’t mean that we can neglect God’s laws.

Jesus said this in Matthew 5:17- 20, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.”

It is true Jesus did fulfill the whole law perfectly but I think it would be a horrible mistake and a sin to think that because we are saved by grace through faith and not by works, or the keeping of the law, that we can just ignore the Ten Commandments, like some people seem to think and teach.  It is true we could never be reconciled to God by keeping the law, which nobody has except the Lord Himself, but after we are saved our desire should be to keep the Ten Commandments the best we can so as to honor the Lord!!  Think about this, if we being believers were exempt from obeying any of God’s laws we would also be exempt from being tested or tempted, which sounds like sinless perfection to me which some people have preached and taught.  We would never have to worry about God’s correction because we couldn’t sin since in order to be guilty of sin we would have to break God’s law.  We wouldn’t have to worry about the evil one roaming about seeking whom he might devour.  No, we wouldn’t even have to resist him so that he would have to flee from us.  

All that is wishful thinking and not reality; but praise the Lord these things will be true for the believer someday when they leave this earth and go to be with the Lord.  But until that time, we need to fear the Lord and resist the devil so he will flee from us and do our best to keep the Lord’s commandments.  I have given you food for thought but don’t just take my word for this or any of my ‘Tidbits,’ study the contents for yourself in the Word.  

The Word says this in 2 Timothy 2:15, “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”

May you have a super day and may the good Lord bless you and yours!!