My Journey to Life - Daily Study Guide

Q12.How can I love God’s Law?

Picture: Q12.How can I love God’s Law? JTLD 258.1

David speaks of the Law being a delight, and the subject of his meditation day and night (Psalms 1:2). As we come to understand how much Christ valued the law and magnified it in His life, we will be eager to follow His example. Increasingly, we will see the beauty, perfection, and expressions of God’s love in His commandments. The law, while pointing out our sin, invites us to come to Jesus who enables us to joyfully obey His commandments. Christ offers to be yoked together with us. The yoke is His law which binds us to the will of God. As He writes the law on our hearts, obedience becomes a delight and privilege. JTLD 258.2

The law calls us to personal commitment, not to a legal institution, but to God Himself. The commands of the law are themselves also promises of what God will do for us if open our hearts to receive Him. His glory, His holiness, and His love are all embodied in the commandments. As we come to know Him as He is and see how He lived out the principles of the law in His self-sacrificing earthly life, we long to enter an ever-deepening fellowship and connection with Him. The law’s unique task is to safeguard and maintain this vital connection with our heavenly family—the Father, who loves us, the Son, who died for us, and the Holy Spirit, our Guide through life. JTLD 258.3

• Bible Discovery: Psalms 40:8; Matthew 11:29, 30; 19:7; John 15:4; Hebrews 10:5, 7
• Further Reading: Ellen White, Selected Messages, vol. 1, pp. 233.3-234.1; Maranatha, p. 79.2-3