Loving Law

Psalm 119:159 (KJV) Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

(Proverbs 20 also read)

Here we have the balance.  On the one side, we have the “precepts" (6490).  That would be the written law.  That’s one of the words used for commandment, law, statute, and so forth.  Notice how the author of this Psalm does not fear the law, feel imprisoned by the law, or in any way condemned by the law.  He “loves the law”.  It is a glorious thing for him.

And then notice how that law is expressed to us.  It is through the “lovingkindness” of Almighty God.  This is grace, God‘s love in action.  This is God, taking the directions He has given us for righteous living and interpreting them with mercy and kindness.

This is the law of God as opposed to the law of the rabbis.

So?  Meditate on the law.  I might suggest that you actually take the laws that are worth meditating on such as the fact that we are to have no other God but Yahweh.  And then apply it in a view of the character of God and how He sent His son to die for us.  That is a glorious application of the law.