God Has Priorities

Proverbs 21:3 (KJV) To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

In my personal worship and study one of the things that I am pursuing is to understand the law.  I’m not out to become an expert on the law.  What I’m looking at is the conflict between David’s praise of the law and Paul’s rejection of the law.  They seem to be total opposites.

So as I read this morning, I found myself seeing that even God has priorities in what He wants to see in our lives.  The idea of sacrifice is certainly part of the law.  We know that Jesus died on the cross as the perfect Lamb of God, and shed His blood so that we could know forgiveness of sins.  That is the end of the process of sacrifice.  Jesus did it for us.

With that in mind, we are to live righteous lives.  We are to live the way Jesus would want us to.  That I would think is obvious, but here we are seeing that kind of concept unfolding in the days of Solomon.  Here it says God wants us to “do”.  This reflects other places in the prophets.  The idea is that we are to live the life not just follow the ritual.

So?  Jesus paid the price that I could not afford.  It just wasn’t in my budget, so to speak.  In response to that, I am going to take the grace that is given to me and apply it to doing justice and showing good judgment.