DIVINE LAWS ARE FOR OUR BENEFIT - Jehovah -The Rightful Lawgiver

Jehovah-The Rightful Lawgiver

As the Creator, Jehovah is the ultimate rightful Lawgiver in the universe.  (Revelation 4:11)  The prophet Isaiah stated:  "Jehovah is our Statute-giver."  (Isaiah 33:22)  He has set the physical laws governing animate and inanimate creation.  (Job 38:4-38; 39:1-12; Psalm 104:5-19) As a creation of God, man is subject to Jehovah's physical laws. And although man is a free moral agent, capable of reasoning on his own,  he is happy only when he subjects himself to God's moral and spiritual laws. -Romans 12:1; 1 Corinthians 2:14-16.

As we know, Jehovah's physical Laws are unbreakable.  (Jeremiah 33:20, 21)  If a  person goes contrary to some physical laws, such as the law of gravity, he experiences the consequences.  Similarly, the moral laws of God are irrevocable and cannot be circumvented or violated with impunity.  They are enforced as surely as his natural laws, though the outcome may not be as  immediate.  "God is not one to be mocked.  For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap." -Galatians 6:7; 1 Timothy 5:24. 

Next time:  DIVINE LAWS ARE FOR OUT BENEFIT - The Scope of Jehovah's Law

The Watchtower, 2002