From
Galatians 3:1-12
“Freedom!”
H,
First of all, I should apologise for the lull in my writing to you. I had a rough four days and the law of writing daily could not overcome the harshness of that cutting reality. Laws do that, don’t they? They set us up to fail. They are such cold things that do not respond to the exigencies of the furious moment. They think man is made for them while we know, now, that they are only as good as they lead us to what Buk calls “the best version of ourselves”.
We have been talking about freedom so it may be useful now to place it more above the law. Since we are set free in order that we may learn to love, not to do the nothings we crave for, it follows that it is not abandon that is above the law but love. It is not superior in the sense that it makes the law obsolete but that it fulfills it. All of the law was to bring us to this point, the fullness of time, so we could see God’s gracious plan to save everyone and reveal His full stature to every man through Christ. The law comes together only in this light.
It may seem that this is a tempering down of the full fire of the gospel. That is only our flawed mind thinking. In truth no one has ever been able to live up to this law. The only man that did, Immanuel, looked us straight in the face and said: “the law was made for man and not man for the law.” He showed us, as God with us, what love truly is: doing for others what they cannot truly do for themselves. He fulfilled the law and then told us that in Him we fulfill it also. We are all on that journey to be the truth about the law. We are out of slavery and into the thick of relationship with God. For that is the idea behind the whole law: to walk us closer and closer to pure intimacy with God.