Meditation 1

How do you know if progress is being made in your faith? What are the symptoms that you have moved higher and deeper into your knowledge of the Holy? Are their benchmarks to measure your spiritual affections? If you are a Christian, chances are that you’ve asked yourself these questions. In your desire to press forward and live your faith, you wonder, ‘how am I doing?’  

There is no “acid test” to gage your spiritual growth, however, there is one question for your mind to meditate on today; do I have admiration for the Law of Christ? Do I have a feeling of delight towards the instructions God has given me? 

The question itself is an odd one to ask in our individualist and ‘me centered’ culture. We very rarely speak or hear of the “Law of Christ” being talked about. However this does not mean that as New Covenant believers we do not have a “Law” to follow. Jesus himself gives us a “commandment” to follow, “Love one another, as I have loved you” (John 15:12). The “Law of Christ” (Gal. 6:2) is fuller and deeper than you ever considered; Do not over-worry about things that are not in your control (Matt. 10:19), and do not try to control everything (James 4:14), Love your nasty coworkers (Luke 6:35), Submit yourself to God even when you don't understand (James 4:7), live humbly (1 Pet. 5:6), Set your hope fully on God (1 Pet. 1:13), Do not conform to the value-system of your culture (Romans 12:2), don't be flakey or a gossip (1 Tim. 1:5), and, love God with with every faculty of your being, all the time (Mark 12:30). These are but a few commands in the Law of Christ. Do you delight in them?

The healthiest believer will ebb and flow in his love for the Law of Christ, and will at times even seem dead to them and lacking any affection at all for them. But the Christian who is making real progress in his faith, is the one who, when he grows dull in his affections, cannot live long without returning to them with great hope that he will once more be able to taste and see that the Lord is good. 

Do you have a passion for for the Law of Christ? Then take heart my friend, you are growing; you have made progress in your faith.