Quick Daily Thought

It's almost noon and I have a four hour trip ahead of me to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to see Chris Tomlin live. Thought I would jot down a quick thought before I go. I know that I will probably be exhausted by the time I get home tonight. I don't expect to get home until around two in the morning.

The last couple nights I have been doing my daily bible reading in the books of Exodus, and Leviticus. I'll be completely honest and say that I can barely stand to read these two books of the Bible. There is so much repetitive law and instruction. From the construction of the Tabernacle to the priestly garments and the law of burnt offerings and the law of grain offerings and the law of peace offerings and the law of sin offerings and so on and so on.

At first thought the laws given seem only to have been made obsolete by Jesus. Paul said that when the complete and perfect came, the incomplete and imperfect would become void and superseded. But while all these specific laws have become void, we must not lose sight of the fact that they are "superseded" by the underlying spiritual principle which is just as binding. (AMP notes) Jesus Christ Himself said, "Do not think that I have come to do away with or undo the Law...;I have come not to do away with or undo but to complete and fulfill" it.

I'm so glad we don't live in those times anymore. We live such free lives with Christ now. No more burnt offerings of specific order and so on. He came that we may have life and life more abundantly. These books show me how God takes our sin so seriously, and makes me appreciate the gift of His son Jesus Christ this much more.

In Galatians 2:19-20 of the Amp. Bible it reads "For I through the Law [under the operation of the curse of the Law] have [in Christ's death for me] myself died to the Law and all the Law's demands upon me, so that I may [henceforth] live to and for God. I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me."