July 1

We live in a time when law is dispensed with—with impunity. We seem to have lost our moral compass. Even our government seems like a ‘loose cannon’ that can go off at any moment in any direction. When it rules that those holding a legal debt are given short shrift while unions whose demands have been instrumental in causing bankruptcy to major companies are rewarded, something has gone terribly wrong with our system.

But God’s law is immutable. Though we may ignore it, though we may count it of such little esteem as to dismiss it, it stands forever. In Romans 8:2 we are told, “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin and death.” When we see the rule of law plummeting into anarchy before our eyes, that one unchanging law gives us hope on which to stand when everything around us is being shaken.

When governments fail, when economies topple, when leaders fulfill the Biblical prediction that one day they shall, “profess themselves to be wise, but they are fools (Romans 1:22), then we who own Christ, who have laid our lives at His feet, shall know assuredly that the One on whose Word we stand shall not fail us!

We are told that when we see all these things come to pass—wars, rumors of wars, pestilence, falling away from faith in the One True and Living God—it is then we must “look up and lift up our heads, for our redemption draws near!” (Luke 21:28), it is then the Spirit of the Law of Life shall preserve us—eternally!