Most people get God’s Laws all wrong. It’s not that they can’t understand the words, and to some degree the higher concepts, but they insist on seeing “law” as some reflection of what our society has done with the concept. You have to keep in mind that our society is completely and totally wrong about justice in the first place.
The universe is a part of Creation. Creation is a reflection of reality. Reality is God’s character. You have to treat Creation as if it were alive. We do not worship the creation, but the Creator. Still, in our reverence to Him we act as if Creation is some part of Him. We treat all things as potentially holy when they are rightly used.
We are spirits with bodies. The flesh we now drag around is a flawed and damaged copy of what it should be, was meant to be, and in eternity what it will be. Creation as we encounter it is in some ways a flawed and damaged copy of what God’s body might be for us. Law as a revelation from God is meant to indicate the indescribable nature of His character. Law is reality. Obey the Laws of God and you are reverencing Him.
With these words I do not pretend to describe God, but indicate something about Him and how we relate to His world. The Laws of God are no more legislation than is Creation His literal flesh. God is not a legislator but the very owner and designer of reality itself. It remains directly connected to His Person, so it behooves us to know Him so that we can live rightly in His reality. Divine justice is roughly equivalent to embracing reality; it’s how things work.
The requirement for us is to relate to Him as a Person, to become acquainted with His whims. Each of us does not connect with Him in precisely the same way because our beings are not the result of some cookie-cutter process. We are unique in His mind as He knows each of us. There are broad generalities along with some basic facts that affect us all in different ways.
For example, I can say we know scientifically that stress carries the kiss of death. It does. But each of us has our own reaction and tolerance to different kinds of stress. Know yourself as He made you, and know His Laws.
