The Believer and delighting in the Law

Romans shows us that by the Law we are shown our sins. The law condemns me. How do we then delight (Psalm1) in the law?

The key question is what does it mean for the Psalmist to delight in God’s law before the coming of Christ? To delight expresses all that makes the godly man happy, it is obedience to God's law that brings happiness. For the Psalmist this meant living in teh light of the law looking forward to the promise it contained.


That will be different from what it means to delight in the law for us – we delight in the law fulfilled in Christ. We also delight in it in the sense of living by it written in our hearts by the Holy Spirit as promised by Jeremiah. It is as we obey the law not as the cause of our salvation but as a way of living in the light of our salvation that we delight in it.