Welcome to today’s devotion.
The law produces no seed
- The call of the kinsman-redeemer was to “stay together that night.” In times of darkness, our mind needs to be in the same place where our eyes sleep. Jesus Christ specifically points to the place of rest. It is at the feet of His nail where we feel in all our humility, not only our inability, but also His great love shown in the work of Calvary. There is no standard way to follow the rules to solve any situation. The law does not carry any seed of promise in itself. While it reveals the holiness of God’s character, it has no redeeming value. It reveals the heart of Christ’s desire, but it is weak through the flesh and cannot secure salvation for us. Jesus Christ loved the law enough to fulfill it, but he also loved us enough to end it.
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We are not fighting for a safe place. We finish the work and then rest in the evening hours. We do not know Him in the plan (Ruth 3:15), but we trust in the integrity of His character, knowing that in His foreknowledge He has fulfilled the plan.
We wait in the night until the Word enlightens the inner soul, (Psalm 119:130) and the morning comes. In the darkness of a trial, we rest in faith and light in the direction of His will without knowing Him. Without explanation we take rest and then we stand in a matrimonial union with the One who understands all this.
Today’s reading passage: 1 Corinthians 5-8