Everything Goes According to Laws

In God’s kingdom, everything goes according to laws; whereas in Satan’s kingdom, lawlessness rules. The aim of all the hosts of wick­edness in the heavenly places is to make people lawless. It is therefore very blessed to be interested in God’s laws, to love them and to keep them.

In life everything goes according to laws, in the spiritual as well as in the natural realm. Nothing happens by chance: even the hairs on our heads are numbered. It is an unalterable law of the Spirit, and of nature, that we must reap what we have sown. What we think, say, and do is therefore extremely important, because they all bear conse­quences.

We must give a large place in our hearts to the seed, which is the word and commandments of God, and be careful not to let any weeds grow. The psalmist says in Psalm 119:77, “Your law is my delight;” and in verse 11, “Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You.” If this is our attitude, it will provide the right soil for God’s word and all good things to grow.

God’s law is all the laws and commandments of the Spirit. In His great grace, God can bless people so they receive a desire for His law. Saul and Solomon are examples of how to receive God’s blessing, but also of how it will go if the desire for God’s laws is not preserved. They followed the evil counsel of their own free will.

J. O. Smith writes in one of his letters about how we can always keep the election and the blessing: “Outward grace is the grace of revival and belongs to God, not the person; but inward grace is received through humility and obedience and is our personal possession.”

God is not a respecter of persons. We preserve the blessing to the same extent that the law in which we delight has become our life. Paul was apprehended of delighting in the law of God accord­ing to his inward man. Romans 7:22. The fruits of this delight will be humility and obedience. The only thing that can lead us further is the faithfulness we show to our election. It was not given to Jesus to decide who should sit at His right or left hand: that place would be given to the one who had drunk deepest of the cup of His suffer­ings. Mark 10:40.

Paul was under law toward Christ. 1 Corinthians 9:21. Paul had deep, good soil in his heart that bore fruit to maturity. Luke 8:15. It is contrary to the laws of nature for something choked by thorns to bear fruit to maturity. The desire to bear fruit can be present, but the condition for it can be lacking. A delight in God’s law “according to the inward man” is lacking.

The laws in the old covenant were not in effect until blood had been shed. Hebrews 9:18-19. Neither do the laws of the Spirit of life have the power to bind us to Christ until we have resisted to blood­shed, striving against sin. Hebrews 12:4.

Knowing God’s laws and commandments, and keeping them, causes us to rejoice. By God’s grace we can experience it as the psalmist says in Psalm 119:97, “Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day,” and in verse 44, “So shall I keep Your law continually, forever and ever.”