December 7

We who are free from bondage to the law because Jesus fulfilled all the law in our behalf sometimes have difficulty grasping exactly what the law is to us. Because Jesus complied with every jot and tittle of the law’s stringent demands, we are able to appropriate to ourselves His total obedience.

Though we don’t have to be encumbered with the minutia of the law, we are advantaged by its benefit, for the Lord has given us the fullness of His obedience. Though we have utterly failed to keep the law, our acceptance of Jesus and His complete keeping of the law is credited to our heavenly account.

It is important that we are mindful of the totality of the Lord’s redemption. It was bought for us with the incalculable price of His death in our behalf and of His sinless life. Had He failed the law in one point, His sacrifice could not have bought our salvation!

James 1:25 recommends therefore, that, “…he who looks into the faultless law of liberty must not be heedless and forget, but must be a doer of the law and be blessed.” Because of our Lord’s perfect, sinless sacrifice, we have the chance to live as He lived—free from the chains of sin and death; free to walk in blessing.