God’s Word for Today

25 Jul, 2025

4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked,

but those who keep the law strive against them.

5 Evil men do not understand justice,

but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.

-Prov 28:4,5 ESV

WHAT IS YOUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE LAW?

God gave the law to Moses to expose sin and encourage righteous living among God’s people. Shortly before Moses died, he challenged the people of Israel to choose between life and good, death and evil. It is by obeying the Lord's commandments, loving the Lord, walking in His ways, and keeping His commandments and statutes, the people would live, multiply, and enjoy God's blessing. But, disobedience would bring God’s punishment. The people would be banished out of the Promised Land. Thus, Moses urged the people to choose life (see Deut 30:15-19).

Solomon reiterates that same idea. Breaking moral laws is absolutely wrong. Thus, applauding those who are immoral is absolutely wrong (Rom 1:32 ). Forsaking the law is to side with and affirm the wicked. Hence, to obey the law is to oppose the wicked. Godly people should be speaking truth [the law] in love against sin (Eph 4:15 , Luke 5:32 ). And, they should not endorse sin or celebrate those who defy God (Isa 5:20 ). Thus, the apostle Paul has urged the believers at Philippi to lead a righteous life and thereby shine as lights in a crooked and twisted generation (Phil 2:15 ). Does not light dispel darkness?

Wicked people don’t recognize that God is the ultimate basis for goodness and righteousness, do they? Thus, they don’t understand God’s justice to obey it. They despise it instead. In contrast, to follow God is to pursue the highest possible standard for such things. (Prov 1:7; 8:33 –36) And when the opposite happens, when evil becomes comfortable, it blinds us to God's truth. Cultures that embrace evil do become indifferent to God and His law (Eze 20:18 –19; Exo 20:5). It's possible that a wicked is aware of his own sin and refuses to repent. He is hardened and controlled by sin that he doesn't recognize it anymore (Rom 1:28 ; 2 Cor 4:4). When something other than God becomes our authority, justice is denied.

This describes the period during the rule of Judges when the nation of Israel cycled between obedience and disobedience. They frequently rejected God's law and embraced lawlessness. Judges 2:11 –13 reports that the people did what was evil in the Lord's sight. They followed false gods and abandoned the Lord. Judges 21:25 says, "In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes." As a result of Israel's rebellion, God sent foreign nations against her until she repented and turned back to Him. However, the cycle of moral decline, opposition, punishment, and repentance occurred repeatedly. Sin clouds the mind to justice. Nevertheless, in every generation, there is a remnant of believers who understand justice and seek to obey the Lord (Rom 11:5).

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