"His House - His Rules"

"For all His judgements were before me, and I did not put away His statutes from me." (Psalms 18:22) Have we taken God at His word? If we have, then we are no doubt believing that all of His word is relevant, and that all of His word is to be followed and obeyed. When I read a verse like this, and meditate upon what is being said, it is hard to connect my life to completeness of what is being said. Yes it is true that we are no longer under the law, and that many of those Old Testament statutes of God no longer apply to our new life in Jesus Christ; but it goes a lot deeper than all those statutes and ordinates of the law; it goes to the heart of God and what He is all about, not to what we are to be about doing. Another way to think about what it is that I am talking about, is to consider what Majesty and Holiness look like. I am very serious. Try to envision what Majesty and Holiness look like, and then picture what you must be like in the presence of either one. That is what I believe all those statutes and ordinances of the law were all about! If you look up the definition of the word rule, you will find that the primary meaning is the principle governing conduct, which means, an authoritative principle set forth to guide behavior or action. As a people that were set apart for God, the children of Israel were to be set apart in their behavior and actions also; in other words, they lived out the reverence to their God. That is not such an unusual thing for us as Christians to be doing also, for we are under a new covenant; one that is not based upon those old statutes and ordinances of the Old Testament, but are based upon a new rule, which means a new authoritative principle, being the Love of God. If you think about what Jesus meant when He said, "He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him" (John 6:56), He was speaking about a rule that was based upon His sacrifice; meaning that the sacrifice which He was making by giving of His body and shedding His blood for us, was to be the authoritative principle set forth to guide our behavior and our actions. Therefore; if any man be in Christ, then he has that rule established within him that was set forth by what Jesus demonstrated on the cross; which a rule that is based upon the Love of God, and the love demonstrated by what was done for us by our God... "He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth His word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in Him. He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked." (1 John 2:4-6)