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An Inward Discovery In the Old Testament, God gave His people a very detailed map of His moral will for them. Israel had 613 laws by which to govern their lives. Old Testament Israel was commanded to carry out specific behaviors like what clothes to wear and not wear, what kinds of food to eat and not eat, and how to build their houses. Thankfully, those laws were nailed to the cross of Jesus Christ (Col. 2:14ff). In place of the Old Covenant, which has been done away with, we have been given a New Covenant that is far better (Heb. 8-10). Under the New Covenant, the Law of God died in Christ (Rom. 7:1-6; 10:4; Gal. 2:19; 3:10-25). However, when Jesus rose again from the dead, He became a life-giving spirit, and He took up residence in each one of us (1 Cor. 15:45; Rom. 8). Christ is the fulfillment of the moral will of God. Christ, through the Holy Spirit, is the living, breathing, personified will of God. To put it another way, God’s moral will now lives inside of us as a Person. He has come in the Spirit, and the Spirit dwells in us. Thus, all the passages in the New Testament about ,being led by the Spirit refer to being led into the moral will of God. (The context of passages like Romans 8 and Galatians 5 make this clear.) Practically speaking, the Spirit of God leads us into the boundaries of the parking lot. As Christians, you and I are no longer under the Old
Prayer becomes a natural reflex like breathing. We don’t need to search for prayer content. We just need to love the Lord by learning His word and love others in the church in an intimate way. In following the two greatest commandments, we’ll have the knowledge we need to pray appropriately. In our love for the Lord we will naturally have a desire to speak continually with Him and in our love for others we know the best thing we can do for them is pray. You see, prayer is birthed not from duty, but from relationship – first love to God and then love to others.
Randy Smith