This week, we take a look at Psalm 119:33-40 and we reflect on what it looks like to learn to love God's law. Loving the law is not something that comes naturally to our human hearts. Usually if someone places a law on our autonomy, it's not likely going to stir up a sense of peace, but rather rebellion. We'd rather look to anyone or anything else but God to tell us what we should do and how we should live. We look to others to satisfy our idol of acceptance and to ourselves to satisfy our idols of control. And let's not even talk about what we look to social media for, despite the ever fluctuating social trends of what is acceptable and unacceptable.

But God's laws free us from looking this way and that to fulfill our hearts desires. Instead of binding us so that our spirits are stifled and confused and anxious, they give us boundaries so that we can flourish. As children living under Gods grace, we can go in confidence that Jesus has paid for any mistake - no matter how large or how small or how intentional or unintentional. We can live our lives in the joy that is freedom in Christ and lay our idols down at His feet.