[library] God’s law

Very much not — indeed very much better than — what we often think it is.Assumed audience: Theologically-orthodox Christians, or folks interested in things that theologically-orthodox Christians think. Properly speaking, law is about the fact that God comes to his people with his own kind of merciful majesty, showing us what we must be if we are to be truly human, setting the law between us and our limitless capacity for self-destruction. God’s law is God interposing himself between us and our headlong rush into self-destruction, God nurturing us by educating us into the true form of human flourishing. If we would be, and if we would flourish, this is what it means to live joyfully from, with, and under God. … Such a picture of human life is, I fear, scarcely conceivable for most of us, to say nothing of whether we think it livable. The idea that the psalm presupposes — that we live within a given order of reality, that God speaks to us and shapes our lives — is pretty remote to the…

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