Exodus

Ok, I am through Exodus an a little ways into Leviticus. Last night I am reading and thinking, " I'm sorry to say this about your Word Lord but it seems so pointless to be reading all this law. I'm glad the tabernacle was explained in detail because now I can look at an artist rendering and see what it looked like and I understand why all the laws for sacrificing needed to be documented for the Jews but Lord it feels like such a waste of time sitting here reading all the mundane details of law I don't have to follow." Then the last five words hit me. I DON'T HAVE TO FOLLOW! What was I doing complaining about reading the law. They had to live it. I thanked Jesus with a new found appreciation for the law I have been freed from.
I wondered as well, this relationship have with my Lord and Saviour is my primary motivator for following His law. It is out of love for Him and I am able to rejoice to follow it. How miserable it would be to follow out of obligation or because of the inconvenience of a sin offering. How lucky are we that when Jesus died His law was to be written on our hearts so the desire of our soul could be to follow Him.

I think the key verse in Exodus for me was chapter 34 verse 9, "And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance."
I come from a long line of non-Christians, and I have been praying fervently for the salvation of my whole family. I know I missed the memory verse on Sunday (whoops) But I feel I must memorize this one and add it to the beginning of my prayers for my family.