I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart. —Psalm 40:8.
Too many of us are paranoid about the word “law” and find it hard to hear a scripture like today’s verse. However, we must recognise that the goal of the New Covenant of grace and the gift of the Spirit is that God’s law is written on our hearts (Hebrews 8:10, 10:16) and demonstrated in our lives (Romans 8:3-4). God is not concerned with the law being written on tablets of stone. He wants us to know his will in our hearts and live it out in our daily lives. Jeremiah prophesied of this day coming, a time when God’s people desire to do God’s will from the heart, with a passion to love what our Father loves and despise what he despises (Jeremiah 31:33). Having been saved by our faith in Jesus based on God’s grace and filled with the Holy Spirit, we can now say with confidence: I desire to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.