Third Use of the Law
Delight in God's Law
Law and Gospel · 6 verses
The regenerate soul finds true pleasure in God's law, delighting in commandments once despised and loving precepts once hated. This delight proceeds from the new nature implanted by the Spirit, which instinctively loves what God loves and desires what God desires. Such delight is both evidence of genuine conversion and means of progressive sanctification, for those who love God's law meditate upon it continually and seek to embody it completely.
Scripture References
“But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”
“O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.”
“For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:”
“I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.”
“The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.”
“But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”