"God's Precious Word" -2

"The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes." (Psalms 19:8) When we are talking about being in the Light, we are speaking about a place where darkness is not welcomed, nor does it have place to be there. The "statutes of the LORD" are the precepts of God, which are those commands required to stand in His presence. Just because Jesus Christ has died for our sins, and has taken from the darkness and into the light, does not mean we are free to go back into the darkness any time that we feel free to do so; on the contrary, we are to remain within that light by making His precepts our precepts to live by. Does that mean we are to observe all of the commands that are written in the Bible? Not necessarily, because many of those commands were written to prepare His people to be Holy before Him, by giving them a sense of reverence for all the different areas of their lives, by which they were constantly reminded of how Holy God is, and how much they lacked His holiness in them. However; what I see the New Testament covenant to mean, is that we are to love God with everything that is in us, which then causes us to adhere to all that He commands us to do personally in our lives. Along with that love which we have for God, we must also love one another as much if not more than we love ourselves; putting others first, means that we put others before ourselves, which is an action required form of loving and requires doing that which demonstrates the love that we have for them. This is what God has done for us, in that He sent His Son to die upon that cross in an effort to show His forgiveness and His love for each and every one of us. He could have just said, I forgive you, and then left it up to us to accept or rejects His offer to forgive us; but He demonstrated His love for us by showing us His mercy and grace that was freely given through the sacrifice of His Son. In a way, God did speak out His forgiveness in the form of His Word, the Word being Jesus Christ... "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." (John 1:1, 14)