For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend
     in one point, he is guilty of all

     — James 2:10

The moral law does not consider us as weak human beings at all, it
takes no account of our heredity and infirmities, it demands that we
be absolutely moral. The moral law never alters, either for the
noblest or for the weakest, it is eternally and abidingly the same.
The moral law ordained by God does not make itself weak to the weak,
it does not palliate our shortcomings, it remains absolute for all
time and eternity. If we do not realize this, it is because we are
less than alive; immediately we are alive, life becomes a tragedy. “I
was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin
revived, and I died.” When we realize this, then the Spirit of God
convicts us of sin. Until a man gets there and sees that there is no
hope, the Cross of Jesus Christ is a farce to him. Conviction of sin
always brings a fearful binding sense of the law, it makes a man
hopeless – “sold under sin.” I, a guilty sinner, can never get right
with God, it is impossible. There is only one way in which I can get
right with God, and that is by the Death of Jesus Christ. I must get
rid of the lurking idea that I can ever be right with God because of
my obedience – which of us could ever obey God to absolute
perfection!

We only realize the power of the moral law when it comes with an
“if.” God never coerces us. In one mood we wish He would make us do
the thing, and in another mood we wish He would leave us alone.
Whenever God’s will is in the ascendant, all compulsion is gone. When
we choose deliberately to obey Him, then He will tax the remotest
star and the last grain of sand to assist us with all His almighty
power.

On this day...

• Job 5 - 2023
• Job 4 - 2023
• For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding. - 2011
• World Visitors - 2011
• Among the oxen (like an ox I'm slow)-I see a glory in the stable grow-Which with the ox's dullness might at length-give me an ox's strength - 2011
• Among the mules(stubborn I as they)-I see my Saviour where I looked for hay-So may my beastlike folly learn at least-the patience of a beast - 2011
• Never let us forget that God expects fruit from us - 2011
• Is there anyone who has everything as he wishes? No - neither I, nor you, nor any man on earth. - 2011
• The most dangerous and unsure thing is to try to live without God. - 2011
• I love to see holy mirth; I delight to see men well feasted. I like Christmas; I wish it came six times a year - 2011