Wed.’s Devo - The Purpose of the Law

Read Romans 7 We are back on track today. The law is only in affect as long as the person is alive. If your spouse dies, you are no longer yoked by law to them and are free to remarry if you want. It is a picture of what happen spiritually. Once we die with Christ we are no longer yoked by the law and are free to live to Christ. We now live by the spirit instead of the law. When you live by the law you will always end up deserving death because you won’t be able to live without breaking it. But being free from the law doesn’t make the law sin. God forbid! :) The law was set up to show us we were sinners. The problem is that the law makes our flesh want to break it. It is human nature to want to defy law. The commandments were written to show us how to live, but they ended up producing death in us instead. But there is more to the law than the surface. They are holy and spiritual and have spiritual meaning to us today. They show us what is holy to God and can bring life to us. Our dilemma is that our flesh that wars against our spirit. That produces wrong decisions and wrong actions. Only Jesus can change our hearts to want to do the things that are written in the law and defeat our fleshly desires. Lord, thank you for the Holy Spirit, who is our spiritual law. Give us a heart to want you above our flesh. Help us to put on the armor of God everyday and not give in to the desires of our flesh.