T.M. Moore

T. M. Moore is principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He and his wife, Susie, make their home in the Champlain Valley of Vermont.
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Our Unchanging God

June 11, 2012

Exodus 20.2, 3

“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.”

Deuteronomy 5.6, 7

“‘I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods beforeme.’”

Psalm 73.25; Romans 1.21-25

In this briefest of prologues, God identifies Himself as sole Giver of the commandments, statutes, precepts and rules that follow. The Law thus has its origins in the eternal being and counsel of the one true God, and this has important implications for the nature of the Law itself.

The Lord. The Law comes to the redeemed of the Lord from an eternal and personal Being, Yahweh, the great I Am. He is holy and unchanging; hence, we should expect that whatever He might ordain in the way of moral instruction for His people would be of the same character. The Law of God is and unchanging, as is God Who gave it; it is therefore also eternal.

Consequently, the Law of God is the absolute and final standard for human moral conduct. The works of the Law are written on the heart of every human being (Rom. 2.14, 15), who bears the image and likeness of God. Thus, by living in conformity to the teaching of the divine Law may any human being expect to find the fullness of God’s purpose for life.

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