Re:Verse passage – Luke 2:21-38 (day three)
“…as it is written in the Law of the Lord…”
Something here transcends the kind of law and grace dichotomy that understands “law” merely as a shackle broken by “grace.” The Law, as Jesus made clear, still exists as that which has proceeded from the mouth of God, its steadfastness likened to the steadfastness of the heavens and the earth. Jesus’s nativity, his childhood, his adolescence, his adult years, his customs, his relations, his disciplines, his observances, his activities of daily living – in short, the whole of his life – was steeped in the Law of God. He believed it, observed it, obeyed it, loved it. And he was accused of breaking it. These accusations were one more way of suffering for him: he who loved the law more deeply than any person on earth ever had was vilified as a blasphemer.
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