Father, it’s been a long day of trying to get over whatever I caught. I’ve not been this sick in some time but I seem to be coming around. May I be able to drive tomorrow and may I also hear Your word clearly this evening. Amen.

Luke 2:21-24 (<<click to read the passage)

One thing that amazes me is the fact that so many people flagrantly disregard the laws of the road. This year I put about 90 miles a day on my bus, plus trips to and from home to the garage. A couple of things I’ve witnessed this year so far.

  • An older woman, looking for where she was going and not at what she was doing, blew through a four-way flashing stop at the intersection of the school right in front of my bus loaded with kids.
  • At the same stop, a guy decided to just follow the car in front of him, without stopping himself – right in front of my bus.
  • The county road that goes through campus is clearly marked on both ends for a 20-m.p.h. speed limit from 7:00 am through 4:00 pm weekdays. People rarely abide by that limit. Some of the worst offenders are the parents of preschool-age children who are running behind in dropping their kids off.

Some just feel that the law doesn’t apply to them. They can do what they want when they want.

If anyone would have been at liberty to bend the rules it would have been Jesus, right? He made the rules – the Law. I mean, He is God! Couldn’t He have blown off the rules and regulations? We had so badly messed up the first covenant with God that He had to come and establish a second covenant to set things straight. He eliminated the old covenant and the Law…right? …WRONG! Jesus, even though He is God, is not above the law – instead, he fulfilled it perfectly!

From the time He was born, He abided by the Law.

He “was circumcised” on the eighth day. (Leviticus 12:3)

There was a “purification offering…required” where His parents would “present him to the Lord.” In essence, they were buying back – “redeeming” – Him from God, acknowledging that He belonged to God first. (Exodus 13:2, 11-16; Numbers 18:15-16)

The “purification offering” was also a requirement for Mary following the birth of her son. (Leviticus 12:8)*

Jesus, Himself, proclaims as recorded in Matthew 5:17-19 (AMP),

“Do not think that I came to do away with or undo the Law [of Moses] or the [writings of the] Prophets; I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For I assure you and most solemnly say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke [of the pen] will pass from the Law until all things [which it foreshadows] are accomplished. So whoever breaks one of the least [important] of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, will be called least [important] in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever practices and teaches them, he will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Lord Jesus, may we not feel that Your Law does not apply to us but may we abide by them. May we embrace Your words in John 14:21 (AMP), The person who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him [I will make Myself real to him].”

*The points in this secti on were from my Life Application Study Bible New Living Translation.

Oct 31st, 2019, Thurs, 5:59 pm