The Law god

We have been trained to worship LAW and rules as our God. In fact, we teach law, rules and tradition and then create God out of that base by stating that God is the character expressed by law. Technically this has truth in it but misses the existence of the heart of God. By worshiping law and rules instead of the true God, we embrace a life of externalism and artificiality, a system of arbitrary, unfeeling cold-hearted punishments and rewards based solely on fear and pleasure. True satisfaction is unfamiliar to most of us for it is found in loving, caring trusting relationships.

It does not matter so much whether the law we promote is good or less than good, what is emphasized is the importance of submission and obedience. We view God's law and rules from the perspective of our laws. Human laws are created primarily to impose the selfish desires of some people on others and control them externally. We weave morality and religious sentiments into nice-sounding justifications for our laws, but if our eyes would be opened to what is becoming obvious, our legal system is largely a system of oppression and manipulation for the benefit of those in power. Lawyers are the priests of this “religion” and worship is demanded from all in submission to this image of God that cannot hear, speak or feel.

These laws can be changed at whim to suit the ever-changing purposes of sinful, selfish men and women. This idol is cloaked with robes of nobility and given titles of justice, fairness and right, but it is a false god no matter how eloquently or intensely it is defended by its promoters. It is based on perpetuation of the faulty system of relationships in the “Babylonian” thinking called Kingship – a hierarchy of unequal relationships exploiting the weak to give pleasure and advantage to the strong. As a result of this thinking even God's laws are viewed as forcing humans into subjugation for God's pleasure. His law becomes the focus of worship instead of His heart. Religion has almost completely lost sight of God's feelings and passions and desires in our steeled obsession and devotion to rules and tradition.

Those who give up trying to achieve value through rule-keeping give themselves over to seeking for anything that brings pleasure and gratification in an attempt to fill the aching void inside created by the law-god. We were created for intimate relations with similar beings and our hearts cry out for a living, loving God. If we have to, we will create a “living” god of our own in other people that we use to give us temporary pleasure. Our whole economic system is crafted to facilitate this idea. We desire peace and satisfaction but are forced to create our own gods to supply these needs because religion has eclipsed the real face of the true God.

But the passion of His truth and glory are beginning to break through the lies and the idol of law is beginning to be exposed for the fraud and impostor that it is. Babylon's system based on artificial values, corrupt economics and heartless, ruthless judicial systems will fall mightily when the real glory of the truth about God fills the whole earth (Rev. 18) and everyone is given access to a love-bonded intimate relationship with a passionately loving, caring Father. His model is family and He rejects any intrusion or imposition of the false system into His home.

Choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served,” the heartless counterfeit entrenched in a self-righteous law-worshiping false value-based religion, or God, our loving Father who only can satisfy your hunger for passion and value and more abundant life.