<p>For Our Happiness God Has Given Us the Law ㅡ</p><p><span> </span></p><p> “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.</p><p><span> </span></p><p> But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.</p><p><span> </span></p><p> And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” (Psalm 1:1-3)</p><p><span> </span></p><p> God has given us His holy precepts, because He loves mankind.</p><p><span> </span></p><p> To shield us from the results of transgression, He reveals the principles of righteousness.</p><p><span> </span></p><p> The law is an expression‎ of the thought of God; when received in Christ, it becomes our thought.</p><p><span> </span></p><p> It lifts us above the power of natural desires and tendencies, above temptations that lead to sin.</p><p><span> </span></p><p> God desires us to be happy, and He gave us the precepts of the law that in obeying them we might have joy.</p><p><span> </span></p><p> (The Desire of Ages 308)</p>
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