I think of the Old Testament prophets. They experienced God once in a while, and for the rest of the time there was the law.

Then came Yeshua. He came to fulfill all the law and transcend us into grace.

I am in 1 Corinthians 15 today, reading how the sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.

Anytime we operate with the premise that we only have the law we are implying that Yeshua never came to give us a way that transcends the law.

Sometimes his ways even make the law void.

But each of us have different level of encounter, and it is when the encounter comes that law takes its proper secondary place.

Encounter is the place where trust transcends understanding.

Law is the area where one can trace back to the roots to understand.

In my life there has been a great undoing of understanding. That is my gain. When I am asked to do something without understanding why, there is no hesitation in me if I feel the breath of the Lord. I may have questions later, perhaps even disagreements to work through, but I marvel at the ability he has gained within me to say ‘go’ and see me ‘go’.

I would be among the persons least likely to trust. Everyone in my family of origin sexually abused me. Betrayal was used to make me the keeper of secrets. the theology of satanism I was taught included a distant God that did not care and had given me over to the powers that harbored evil intent towards me.

I broke on my own. I was broken intentionally. I was sold. I was tortured. I believed my existence was for, through, and from the cult. I was brain washed. My mind was controlled through trauma based programming.

For me, the idea of life that transcends the law is liberty. The One who leads me in waters I do not understand has proven His love. I would gladly go with Him. I have learned to trust.

I think about coming from God, who is love, and being sent into law, which is death’s sting. I think about how people get religious when all they have in terms of power is the law, and they perceive that law keeps them from sin. And I read that sin’s power is the strength of the law. And I understand. Slave mentality.

Without encounter, if I desire God, all I have left is the thought that if I follow his law he is required to save me.

But to have encounter, one must trust that their life does not always get to demand to understand. It is a yield of who owns the life, me or my God.

I consider that the counter of law which leads to sin which allows death a sting, is love which leads to trust which allows grace that transcends death.

In my father’s house are many mansions, if it were not so, he would have told us. (John 14) Where he goes, he will come again from, to receive us. Where he is, we also may then be able to be.

Then we will know where he goes, and we will know the way.

We are in the process of that coming to pass.

And he makes everything beautiful in its time.