The law of Yahweh is perfect, reviving the soul;[1]
Right now, over exactly what is going on
inside you, God wants you to know that HIS law is perfect and complete.
We know that the laws of our land or
imperfect at best, and corrupt at worst.
We know that the laws our parents ruled by
were lacking at best, and abusive and traumatizing at worst.
We know that the laws our abusers operated
by were sinful and wicked and corrupt in every way and that is why they have caused
us so much damage.
We know that the laws of our sarks (flesh)
are always wrong at best, and utterly self-destroying at worst, and so we
absolutely need what is better.
In comes “the law of Yahweh”.
Yahweh, our God and Father, operates by law. This is not a burden to us as
though it is something we cannot keep because this isn’t about US keeping his
law, but about HIM keeping his law.
In other words, what we read in his word is
the truth, and that is exactly the way we will find him caring for us as his
children.
The law of Yahweh our Father “is perfect”.
To keep this short, I want you to simply
consider this: YOUR law is faulty, broken, filled with ignorance, blind to
truth, consumed and ruled by fear and unbelief. It cannot rule you well.
What your soul is looking for is a Father
whose law over us is not only filled with goodness of the highest kind, but is
absolutely guaranteed to be what he says it will be. If he says he loves us
with an everlasting love, that is law. It cannot change. It cannot be broken. I
could go on, but let this truth feed your soul.
What effect does the perfect and complete
law of Yahweh our Father have on us? The effect of Father’s perfect law is “reviving
the soul”.
Your soul is where the deadness and
emptiness and worthlessness and hopelessness are living. It is the condition of
the real you.
The “reviving” of the soul means the
bringing back to life of our realness. Much of the deadness, emptiness, and
hopelessness within is because something died. Our real selves died. We know
that we have been trying to role-play that we are someone different on the
outside than we are on the inside. Now God tells us how the real self on the
inside can come back to life.
Conclusion: find some way to meditate on
the law of Yahweh your Father. Even if you begin with a response to the verse I
am sharing, it is already a facet of the diamond of God’s word that is a
perfect radiance of the glory of our God that it can revive our souls simply to
say, the God who spoke into the darkness, “Let there be light, and there was
light,” has come with his perfect law to speak my soul back to life.
And, if you are a child of Yahweh through
faith in his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the Triune God will not fail to revive
your soul back to life in a work that will be complete in due time.
Today, you are invited to gaze on the beauty
of this, that our Father’s law has come to our empty, dead, hopeless hearts
with a perfection greater than we can know or understand with the promise to
start where we are and take us all the way to a real self that is fully alive
in Jesus Christ our Lord.
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