God's Grace in Law
DON’T ABANDON YOUR BIBLE READING when you get to God’s Law in Exodus.
As you slog your way through, look for God’s grace in his law! For example:
Exodus 23:12—“Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.”
Notice God’s concern for work animals, the slave, and the foreigner? He wants them to rest, to “be refreshed.”
See his emphasis on “the other,” not just the owner.
Look at how gracious God is in the following laws:
Exodus 23:4—If you find an “enemy’s ox or donkey wandering off, be sure to take it back to him.”
Exodus 23:6—“Do not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.”
Exodus 23:9— “Do not oppress a foreigner….”
He even commands the Israelite to let their land lie fallow the 7th year. Why?
“Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left.” (Exodus 23:11)
These examples of God’s grace in law foreshadow the ultimate grace God would provide for his people when Jesus came, full of grace as he fulfilled the Law.
Grace, grace, God’s grace.
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