His Immutable Law

July 9

We know we can’t earn our salvation. Believers in Christ are fully aware that it is not by our good works or our excellence of character that we are born again into the family of God. The Lord Jesus, who was the only perfect Man to ever walk the earth, said there is but One who is good and that is God (Luke 18:19).

We understand that if we who are encumbered by the weight of sin are to be given entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven, it will be because of some force, some action outside of ourselves. Man, from the beginning of time has grasped that understanding. Knowing he is of himself unworthy, he has been compelled to endeavor through some action on his part to present himself more favorably before the Almighty.

Sinful man will deny himself pleasure, will sacrifice that which is most precious, undertake great challenges in order to please the One he knows in his innermost being is far above himself. Man may not know Him, he may not know how to go about pleasing him, but that does not restrain him from trying to appease the Holy One. Jeremiah 17:10 makes a remarkable assertion. Here the prophet tells us...

“The Lord searches the heart of man and examines his mind to reward him according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve.” There is coming a day of accounting, in which the works of believers will be tried by fire (I Peter 1:7). We know that once we have received the free, unspeakable gift Jesus purchased for us, we are to live our lives in compliance with His will and His immutable law of love.