Editorial November 8, 1975 Issue

A Law to Be Loved

Peter J. Henniker-Heaton

God's law is always on the side of His creation, man. God's law never works against man. It never imposes limitations on man's natural activities or on man's full enjoyment of being what he truly is and of what God made him to be. No wonder the Psalmist said, "O how love I thy law!"^{Ps. 119:97;} God's law is indeed a law to be loved.

If we are to take full advantage of all that God's law offers us, we need to be thoroughly familiar with it, to clearly understand how it works. The glider pilot learns something of aerodynamic laws and becomes conversant with wind and air currents before he can make these work for him and so complete his glides successfully. The seaman tacks successfully against the breeze by a similar knowledge and by making the forces of current, wind, and tide work for him instead of against him. When we understand God's moral and spiritual laws and work with them, we find all the laws of God are working with and for us.

The healing and saving works of Christ Jesus were possible because he had an unparalleled scientific understanding of God's law, because he loved it and knew what it is and does for men. Whether the need was food for a hungry multitude or safety for a storm-beaten ship or healing for a diseased body, Jesus translated the human situation into spiritual terms and brought it under the beneficent control of God's law. Jesus' miracles were not a suspension of divine law; they illustrated the action of divine law, working in him, with him, and for him.

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