Devotional Blog Tuesday, August 16

Daily Devotional for Tuesday, August 16

Law at Sinai

What follows these words are what is commonly referred to as the Ten Commandments. In many ways, the Ten Commandments provide a summary of all the ways you ought to behave toward God, and toward everyone else in order to please God. The truth is, the Ten Commandments are an excellent guide for you to follow in your behavior. Jesus taught that even these fell under the umbrella of two commandments. The first was to love God with all that you have, and the second was to love your neighbors as yourself. 

Although these commandments are a great moral guide and code, there is something that they are not. They are not a checklist to salvation; in fact, if you compare yourself honestly to these laws, all you will discover is how quickly and how often you fail to obey them! The Law was never designed to save you, but only to show you how often you fail. Despite your best efforts, sinful man cannot even manage to follow ten simple rules every time, all of the time. As Galatians 3:24 and 25 teach, the Law was to be your schoolmaster, to bring you to Christ, to be saved by faith. 

You can never follow God’s Law in a way that will make you perfect and therefore eligible for eternal communion with God who is perfect. You will always fail and come short. Jesus came to show you a better way, and He provided Himself as a better way. A life spent trying to follow these Ten Commandments for salvation is a wasted life.

JUST A THOUGHT: If you are relying on your works for eternal life, you are literally working yourself to death.

Wally Fry