The Law Made Honorable
The Law Made Honorable
Ralph Erskine
When we look to the law of God and our own personal obedience to it, we are made to cry, "Away with it; it is but filthy rags; if Thou, Lord, shouldst mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?" But when we look to the law of God as magnified and made honorable by our Lord Jesus Christ, we are ready to say, "In this and in this alone will I be confident—IN HIM WILL I BE JUSTIFIED, AND IN HIM ALONE WILL I GLORY; FOR HE IS THE LORD MY RIGHTEOUSNESS!" Now when the law or conscience charges us with the debt of obedience to it as the condition of life, we can say, "I am indeed a debtor, but not to the law; I am dead to the law THROUGH MY BETTER HUSBAND, who has in my name magnified and made it honorable."