Thoughts on the readings for January January 30th (Exodus 1, 2, Psalms 53, 54, 55, Romans 7, 8)

Romans 7 starts with an analogy comparing the liberty to remarry providing the former spouse had deceased with the believer’s freedom from the law because Christ’s death was the death-knell for the Mosaic law. The chapter showed the law’s purpose in provoking peoples’ covetous lusts demonstrating human incapacity to be righteous on the basis of law keeping. A delight in God’s law within our mind must make the coming freedom in Christ’s Kingdom a foretaste of the final freedom when we will be set free.Romans 8 indicates that desire must be supported by a concerted attempt to live after the spirit by thinking spiritually and not carnally. What was impossible for the law to provide – a totally sinless being from Adam’s progeny – our Heavenly Father produced in a unique man, completely possessed of every passion and frailty common to humanity; yet as a product of his divine parentage and strengthening by constant imprinting of Yahweh’s Word a Victor over fleshly thinking. The chapter tells us that those, who like their Lord, are led by spirit thinking will likewise be God’s children. The chapter tells us the steps involved in the process of our being saved, as verses 28-30, show. Finally the encouragement of verses 31-39 reveal to us that God has done above and beyond what we could conceivably think – so the remaining perceived impediments are minuscule by comparison. God’s demonstrated desire to see the faithful in His Kingdom cam only be thwarted by ourselves. Read these verses aloud and marvel at the message of the love God has for His children and has been shown to us by the life, death and glorifying of His Son our Lord Jesus Christ.