God’s Laws are for Our Good

Pastor Dewey Moede

3 years ago

Pastor Dewey Moede Note: Do you have the Ten Commandments posted in your home? Your Office? Are they posted in your Church? Are they taught in your Church? I have them here in the FGGAM Office, I seek the Lord almost every second of the day and His guidance. The Ten Commandments keep me so very humble and alert to my Lord and His ways. To me, life is one big prayer. Breaks my heart on how so many people nowadays are trying to get on the throne of God, they think they are better than God, I see it in our world everyday.

August 19, 2021
Today’s Daily Devotional

PRAY OVER THIS

“Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.”

(1 John 3:4)

PONDER THIS

In the physical universe there are laws. We don’t break the law of gravity; we’re broken on it. And in the moral universe there are laws. We have the Ten Commandments. We don’t really break the Ten Commandments; we’re broken on the Ten Commandments. When we transgress God’s Ten Commandments, we have sinned. Sin makes us outlaws. We may be prone to think that we would be better off without the Law since the Law brings recognition of our sin. But this is not right. Moral law is for our welfare. If we didn’t have the law of gravity here, we’d have to pull one another down off the ceiling. And moral law is also for our welfare. Every time God says, “Thou shalt not,” He’s saying, “Don’t hurt yourself.” Every time God says, “Thou shalt,” He is saying, “Help yourself to happiness.” God doesn’t need anything; He has everything. God made these laws for us. When we transgress, we break God’s Law and we break God’s heart because God loves us.

How have you experienced the Law as a means for your good?
Think about being a child who must follow certain family rules for his good and about being an adult who must make rules for the good of the family? How does this help you understand the intention of the Law?