God Promises the Law Blesses You

Psalms 119:1-2 Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the LORD. 2 Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart.
 
THE psalm’s 176 verses form a beautiful song that honors the LORD God’s law. The law is God’s Word to teach us what is right. The law is God’s foundation to bless mankind with a full life.
   But our sin-captured hearts naturally rebel against the law. Our tendency is to believe God’s commands restrict our freedom. How important free will is to us! We think free will is God’s gift to us, so we can be free to do our will on earth. We ask, “Is it possible God wants any boundaries on our lives? Isn’t his sole purpose to make us happy?”
   No. God’s sole purpose is to make you holy before his throne. This purpose began in the beginning: Genesis 2:15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.”
   God’s first law was Adam’s work to care for the Garden. This would not be toilsome work, but it would be a necessary, life-sustaining work to look after God’s creation. A lawful servant enjoys the fruit of his work with God.
   God’s second law is a blessing. God commanded Adam that he was free to eat of any fruit in the Garden. The third law is one of consequence. If Adam ate from the one forbidden tree he would die. His death would first be a spiritual death in his relationship with God. The second death is physical death.
   These three commands have the three elements of God’s law throughout Scripture: service, life and death. In the Exodus service laws, God established the place and order of worship. He teaches us to serve one another with particular laws to aid widows, orphans, slaves and those falsely accused of murder.
   The Ten Commandments and other laws point us to proper behavior in our relationship to God and to one another. His laws also detail consequences to lawbreakers.
   Your obedience will bless you to a good safe life in God’s benevolence. But if your will is to live outside those laws, the consequence is God’s curse. Moses says it this way in Deuteronomy 30:19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live. God wants your free will to choose his law, so you can enjoy life to the full with him. (John 10:10)
   The law becomes even more beautiful when you understand it leads to Jesus. Jesus fulfilled the law, so God will completely establish his will on earth as it is in heaven. God’s law continues to be and must always be our guiding force in our redeemed life. When you completely understand its blessings, your life’s purpose will match God’s purpose for you – to become holy as the LORD God is holy.