A cause for pause...

This morning on Chuck Colson's Breakpoint website there is a wonderful posting by T. M. Moore. It is based on Proverbs 28:9 - If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

This passage should give every Christian in America pause. Am I hearing the law? A friend of mine is deeply committed to the concept of grace, having been raised in a very legalistic home. He frequently reminds me that we are not under law, but grace. I believe Moore may have a revelation for my friend, when he says,

Here is a call, not to be saved by God’s Law, but to begin working out our salvation in those good works for which we have been redeemed, good works ordained from of old, as Paul puts it (Eph. 2:8-10).

Christian soldier, can you recite the Ten Commandments... in order. Do you know what Jesus said about the sixth and seventh Commandments in the Sermon on the Mount? God is the same yesterday, today and forever. His Laws do not change. Are you hearing the Law? Meditating on it? Teaching it? Sharing it? Obeying it?

Read Moore's post, titled, "Your Prayers." Do not let your prayers be an abomination, "an abominable stench in the nostrils of God," as Moore puts it.