During the years I served as a legal nurse consultant, I was surprised and sometimes “wearied” by the level of detail required to prepare for deposition and trial. I knew the hours it would take to bring even the simplest case to trial. I thought of the emotional and financial burdens that would be imposed on many. The Pharisees and teachers of the law had an obsession with detail. Hmm - sounds a bit like the United States Congress, bedeviling law making with redundant detail, without pity for those expected to understand and obey.
God's law was written on two tablets of stone. He knew the impossibility of covering the detail of every event. He gave us the general principles knowing that we could not keep hundreds of laws and regulations. At the appointed time, God gave us his son Jesus to lighten the burden of the law, and to fulfill the law through redemptive love.
Jesus said, “Woe to you lawyers and teachers, for you load people with burdens hard to bear, unreasonable regulations, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,' so that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.”
Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
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