Thursday, November 18, 1999
Thursday, November 18, 1999
For you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of
the law: justice and mercy and faith.
Our greatest debt is to the children of Israel, for they laid the foundation for our faith. That
foundation calls us to fulfill the law of the Old Testament. But, there is a difference between
fulfilling the law and living with God's spirit through Jesus Christ.
God doesn't need legalistic followers. God wants our faithfulness, our love, and our grace!
(Matthew 23:23
NRSV)
Israel lived by God's law, as they understood it. The world can never adequately repay the Jewish
people for giving us God's Law. You and I do not read a truncated Bible. We value the New
Testament for it tells us about Jesus and Paul and those valiant spirits of the early church. But we
also value our Old Testament the Bible of the Jews. There is no document on earth quite like it.
Imagine our spiritual life without the Ten Commandments or the Psalms, or the writings of the
prophets or the magnificent stories Adam and Eve, Noah, Ruth, David, Solomon to name but a
few.
Dear God, I can really be good about telling others about the dos and don'ts, shall and shall nots.
Help me to relearn your true way of living in grace. Amen.
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