Article March 26, 1990 Issue

God's law governs our lives

Human law is obviously important to an orderly functioning of society. Yet it also tends to be changeable. Divine law, based on God, Love, is changeless.

Mary Barnes

Having worked at one time in a law office, I grew to appreciate the workings of the law. I realized that although human laws had their fallibilities and limitations, they did give a glimpse of the grandeur of God's law, which was central to Christ Jesus' teachings.

It is incontestable that the laws of society play an essential role in human experience; in fact without such laws there would be chaos on the highways, in the air, and on railroads, as well as in other aspects of our daily lives. But in contrast to divine law, human law is subject to change.

The results of such changes are not always as positive in practice as they start out in theory. This has made me more grateful than ever for the fact that God's law is changeless. And I've come to see the need to become ever more aware of this spiritual law and to endeavor more consistently to live in conformity with it.

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