Strengthening The Impact Of The Torah
Psalm 119
121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.
122 Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.
123 Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.
124 Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.
125 I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.
126 It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law.
127 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
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How much of the Torah’s directives can be ignored, dismissed, rejected before it has been made void? I think that’s a fair question.
5%?
35%?
67.3%?
98.78%?
Ever thought about it that way?
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How much of the Torah’s directives can be removed from society before God has become void? Where is that tipping point? Fair question?
5 aborted babies?
500 aborted babies?
5,000,0000 aborted babies?
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How much of the Torah’s directives can WE personally ignore, dismiss, reject before WE have made the conforming influence of Yeshua void in OUR OWN lives? I think that’s fair to ask ourselves too, right?
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I’m not sure about you, but the dragged out ongoing realities revolving around us have caused me to look at my life more closely, realistically, honestly.
Why?
Because it’s too easy to focus on the lock-step societal compliance walking around me every day (masks and vaccine) and lose sight of my own lack of biblical compliance.
In other words the world, through its rejection of God’s Law/Torah, is quickly crumbling around me.
While at the same time …
My inner spiritual world, through my own lack of compliance to God’s Law/Torah, is not the stabilizing factor it could or should be.
The point?
While it’s easy to jump on the lost world for making void the Torah, I think we as God’s people need to see how much Torah we possibly are voiding in our own lives as well.
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Question —
Is it inexcusable for us to put the standard of Torah compliance on the lost world and not on our own selves? We need to ask ourselves that, right?
We’re confronted with that line of thinking by the Apostle Paul in Romans 2 -
1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
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If we hope the world will come to understand that they are under the judgment of God due to their violations of His Torah, then perhaps it would be beneficial for them to see us apply the same standards of measure to ourselves.
And …
Maybe the world would be more willing to acknowledge their sin and repent if they saw us demonstrating the same level of honesty and action in our lives. That’s also fair, isn’t it?
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I’m kind of wondering if we’re more a part of the problem than we realize. The flip side to that is maybe we can be more of the solution as well.
If we were to increase our own obedience to and reliance upon the Torah, maybe the world would see such a demonstrable change in us that they would take notice and wonder what’s up.
I believe that through our own compliance to the Torah, we can and will create a hunger in others for the same. Let me state it this way:
Why would anyone want something when they can’t see why they should want it?
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It comes down to our level of trust, doesn’t it?
That is: trust in our God and His Word to honor our actions of submission and obedience to His Torah come “weal or come woe” — through the good and bad times, the joys and sorrows, the prosperity and misfortunes of life.
The lost world deserves to witness the lived out reality of all things God in our lives. That’s how it should be. We are a light in the midst of their darkness. And … the Torah is the source of that light.
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So yes, I concur with the psalmist when he pleads with the “Lord to work for they have made void thy law.”
But …
I want to make sure I’m not judging others for their lack of Torah compliance more so than I am myself. That’s too easy, too hypocritical. And I have to believe that, like a teenager can see through the phoniness of adults, the world can see though ours as well.
Therefore …
Let us make sure we’re Strengthening The Impact Of The Torah through our lives.
That’s fair to trow so, right?