Article July 3, 1989 Issue

Law enforcement

The law that sustains all true justice also protects us and corrects wrongdoing.

Evelyn Duckett

How do you think of law? Does it seem to you something rather abstract and complicated, shrouded in special terminology, varying from country to country, and often bewilderingly bureaucratic? If this is all that law means to us, then no wonder it often seems difficult to turn to it with any confidence.

The Bible gives a much higher sense of law as God's provision for the guidance of His people. Many instances are recounted where obedience to the law of God brought order and progress, while disregard of it led to disorder and decline. A cornerstone of God's law is the Ten commandments, and in a number of countries these were the original basis of civil law.

Christ Jesus summarized the essence of the Ten Commandments: loving God and loving one's neighbor.

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