Why Should He Love Me So?
What does the God’s law require of us? Christ teaches us this in a summary in Matthew 22. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. The law as it is confessed here is the law of the LORD, the God of the covenant. The preface of the law states, I am the LORD your God, and in the summary of the law we read, You shall love the LORD your God. The law is the covenant law. We need to enter more fully yet into the idea that the law is the law of the covenant, since that is also decisive for the knowledge of sin. Everyone has at least some notion of the law when in certain actions one’s conscience bothers him. Yet, what meaning does this twinge of conscience have for the true knowledge of sin, as it is meant here? Again, we cannot draw a straight line from one to the other, when the accusation of the conscience does not, of its ow...
