I delight in the law of God after the inward man. Romans 7:22.
The psalmist declares of the good man, “His delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night.” He refers to his own experience, and exclaims, “Oh, how love I Thy law! It is my meditation all the day.” “Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in Thy word.”—Testimonies for the Church 4:526.
The will of God is expressed in the precepts of His holy law, and the principles of this law are the principles of heaven. The angels of heaven attain unto no higher knowledge than to know the will of God; and to do His will is the highest service that can engage their powers.
But in heaven, service is not rendered in the spirit of legality. When Satan rebelled against the law of Jehovah, the thought that there was a law came to the angels almost as an awakening to something unthought of. In their ministry the angels are not as servants, but as sons. There is perfect unity between them and their Creator. Obedience is to them no drudgery. Love for God makes their service a joy. So in every soul wherein Christ, the hope of glory, dwells, His words are reechoed, “I delight to do Thy will, O my God; yea, Thy law is within my heart.”—Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 109.
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Radiant Religion
Thought for the Day
Christ became one flesh with us, in order that we might become one spirit with Him. It is by virtue of this union that we are to come forth from the grave,--not merely as a manifestation of the power of Christ, but because, through faith, His life has become ours. Those who see Christ in His true character, and receive Him into the heart, have everlasting life. It is through the Spirit that Christ dwells in us; and the Spirit of God, received into the heart by faith, is the beginning of the life eternal. Desire of Ages, p. 388