Live as Though the Only Law is Love

While reading Romans 4 I stumbled along a passage that references Abraham's faith. The promise of Righteousness comes through faith not through the Law. Verses 14 and 15 state, "For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith has no value and the promise is worthless, because law brings wrath. And where there is no law there is no transgression."

To me this means to live, not in a lawless fashion as if there is no law, but to live as though there is no law except to Love. When we do this God has the ability to flourish. As Paul describes it, the law actually motivates and provokes sin. Despite all of its consequences, due to our human nature the law actually causes us to fall into sin, however, if we pretend and come to terms with the fact that TO LOVE is the only law, we will then automatically become obedient to all of the other laws for they are derived from the basic concept of love. Paul says literally to become "dead to sin", which to me is his urge for us to be dead to the law. To be raised up under a new law, that of grace and of love, for if we focus and live under this new law our ability to follow all of the other laws are guaranteed to proceed.

It is a beautiful concept that is such a profound truth. How perfect would our world be if we all loved? I'm not talking, dating, I love you because you love me love, I'm talking you hate my guts, but I will show you kindness, gentleness, patience, self-control, goodness, peace, faithfulness, and LOVE despite that fact. If we truly began to follow this in our lives think of how perfect the world would be...Truly try and grasp it. Regardless of what you may think about the theology of the Bible, even if you take it as nothing more than a set of moral guidelines, the world would be a heavenly place if we would just follow it. Its divine wisdom is demonstrated through its absolute truth. If the world would simply love one another, it would be a perfect place. Self-sacrifice, kindness, understanding, patience, and all other moral qualities would flourish, for where love is, the others always follow.

So here is the cool philosophical part of all of this. Jesus said, "No one is good except God alone." Since man has been born into sin due to Adam and Eve's disobedience, there was only one way for salvation to truly function. God had to create a way out of our sinful nature through a perfect GOD SACRIFICE. Only God is good therefore for Jesus to live a sinless life He could have only done it through the seed of God. The reason that a woman's womb could be used was because it isn't an actual "seed" it is simply an incubator with an egg, but the actual seed of life comes from the man. I know that it takes both, but the actual living seed comes from the man, who was born into sin due to disobedience. This is where the absolute perfection of the plan comes to fruition.

God created a perfect being through His, and only His, goodness, for no one except Him is truly good. Jesus then lived a sinless life due to His supernatural birth from the core of goodness, God Himself. Jesus obeyed the law, but He did not become a slave to the law for no man can perfectly abide by the law. The reason that men of that day and age found Him so displeasing was because He didn't rely on the traditions of men that came from the law, He was only obedient to truth, not the twisted concept of truth through man's tainted traditions. That's why when the Pharisees got upset about how Jesus' disciples didn't wash their hands before eating they got all bent out of shape because they had taken the law and formed traditions that actually cause them to contradict the law. They place their obedience in the traditions of men rather than in the absolute truth of God's word. He was a slave to the law and God, but not to the deceitful traditions of man. This is not to say that traditions are bad, but to place them higher than the ultimate truth is what Jesus was addressing. They let their traditions and customs become more valuable to them than the truth about God's word.

So here's the kicker. Those who are children of the law will be judged by the law, and those that are children of grace, in Jesus Christ, will therefore be judged by grace, Jesus Christ. To me, God's perfect plan is just amazing. The complexity of its simplicity is the most astounding truth in all of our existence. His infinite wisdom is so amazingly simple that we actually miss it due to our innate desire to complicate everything. Instead of reading the Bible and thinking it's all complex, read it and truly realize how simple its truths really are.