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How can God require anything of human beings? There are three reasons.
Who is this God Who requires so much of His people?
There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind respecting the question of Who stands back of the Law of God. He is Creator, Sustainer, and Owner of all created things. Simple observation of the cosmos tells us that this God is powerful, wise, good, orderly, and unchanging.
Further, He is completely free and independent of His creatures; He has no need of the cosmos or of the men who inhabit it (Acts 17.25). He is immense, omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. He lacks for nothing, but is whole and complete and entire within Himself alone. All the holy and eternal being and power of God stand behind His Law. Men must not doubt for a moment His intention of seeing this Law obeyed – not because God’s desire is to dominate or tyrannize His creatures, but because of His determination to bless them by teaching them the ways of love.
He who promises that the Law He has commanded is for our good, He is able, as we see from the creation around us, to cause that Law to accomplish its desired intent.
T. M. Moore
The Law of God is the soil which, fertilized by the rest of God’s Word and watered by His Spirit, brings forth the fruit of Christian life. If you’d like to understand this process better, and how to make best use of the Law in your walk with and work for the Lord, order the book, The Ground for Christian Ethics, from our online store.
Except as indicated, Scripture taken from the New King James Version. © Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.