Bible Verse of the Day Thursday March 30th, 2023

James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

This verse is an unambiguous notice that if one were, by some stretch of the imagination, be able to keep just one or even a few points of the Law, breaking one point is breaking the entire Law. James's use of the word "whoever" clearly points out that there are no exceptions to this rule. This would mean that there is no one that has ever drawn breath on planet earth, living today or will ever live that is not guilty of breaking God's Law. 

There has only been one that was able to keep the entire Law without breaking even in one point, that is, our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. James uses the concept of keeping the whole Law as a hyperbole of the all-inclusive unanimity of the Word of God. Christ Jesus is the Word (John 1:1), the truth, and the complete Law. We cannot be saved by following the Law because, simply put; we could never keep every point of the Law. Christ Jesus did that on our behalf and then nailed the Law to the Cross of Calvary (Colossians 2:14).  In doing so, Jesus negated the sin debt we owed that would condemn us to an eternity separated from God. If it were somehow possible for one of us to be justified through the keeping of the whole Law, then Christ Jesus would not have had to suffer the shame, humiliation, and excruciating pain that He endured in the time leading to His crucifixion and suffering and dying on the Cross of Calvary (Galatians 2:16-21).

If we attempt to use the Law for our salvation or even our sanctification, we will find ourselves under a curse. However, if we will but place our faith and trust in Christ Jesus, accept the truth that He alone kept every aspect and point of the Law and becoming a curse for us, we will know eternal life instead of eternal death (Galatians 3:10-13).  When James speaks of stumbling, he is, in essence, saying that we make one misstep in attempting to follow God's Law. In other words, if we break one law, it is equivalent to breaking every one of the laws (Leviticus 19:37). 

God's Law is perfect as God is perfect and one, as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one. If we support some great weight with a chain and one of the links breaks, the entire project will fall. We are only fooling ourselves if we boast of the few points of the Law that we are keeping and intractably attempt to hide the points we are not keeping. We cannot diminish or dismiss our sins because, in doing so, we are belittling and disparaging God and what Christ Jesus did for us on the Cross of Calvary. The only one way to assure that we are in step with Christ Jesus daily is total and complete surrender of our hearts, souls, minds, and bodies to Jesus and allowing God to have complete control of our lives. we only have to commit one sin to make us sinners. If I am driving a nail with a hammer, miss the nail and hit my finger, not only the affected finger will throb with pain, but my whole body will be affected.