The Law is Holy!

Leviticus 22:31–33 (HCSB)

"You are to keep My commands and do them; I am the LORD. You must not profane My holy name; I must be treated as holy among the Israelites. I am the LORD who sets you apart, the One who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am the LORD."

God is holy and everything God does is holy. We must not treat anything the Lord does as common. We must not defile any of His commands.

Occasionally I hear someone piously say, “That is Old Testament; I don’t have to obey that.”

Are not all God’s commands holy? Even though we are under grace and not under the Law are we to treat any part of God’s holy Word as common? We defile it if we do! Where do we get off thinking we can do that? Just how spiritual do we think we are that we can hold God’s law in contempt?

I’m not saying we have to live under the law. The law does not save us. The law treats us like a whipping boy—thumping us on the head every time we do wrong. It reminds us constantly or our failures—that we do not measure up—that we cannot do anything to save ourselves. The purpose of the law is to drive us to Christ. Until we have come to the law and said, “I cannot save myself” we will never come to Christ and say, “Lord, please, save this sinner!”

But we have no right to treat the law as anything other than holy. It is, after all, God’s law, and an expression of God’s own holy character. We may not live up to it, but we sure as heaven should honor it! The law therefore deserves our truest respect, just as God’s holiness deserves our truest respect.