legalistic?
What SHOULD our
attitude about the law be?
Impossible
to Keep?
Many
people will use the logic that, since none of us can perfectly keep the law,
the law must be disregarded. Some
will even say, “It’s impossible to keep the law.”
That’s why Jesus came; to keep the law so we wouldn’t have to.
Is that true? Is the law impossible to keep?
Would God create laws that couldn’t be kept? What does God tell us about our ability to keep the law?
Deuteronomy
30:11
11 For this commandment which I command you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it out of reach.
12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who shall go up to heaven for us, and bring it to us, that we may hear it and do it?”
13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you shall say, “Who shall go across the sea for us, that we may hear it and do it?”
14 But the word is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
15 See, I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil.
16 In that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply: and the LORD your God shall bless you in the land where you go to possess it.
So, according to God, keeping his laws is well within our ability and, if we do so, our lives will go better. It should not be a “hard” thing to do. In fact, the law should be our most valued gift from God.