The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me
free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8:2)
We speak about natural laws.
What are natural laws? Take the law of nourishment. Provided that
law is complied with, honored; and at the right time the body is
given what it needs, not more, not less; the law of nourishment
deals with that and quite spontaneously works out in development,
growth, to express itself in various ways. It is the working of a
natural law spontaneously. You do not sit down with the law, and
watch it, and worry about it. What you do is to feed yourself,
and leave all the rest to the law. If you violate the law you
know all about it, but acting rightly in relation to the law you
will not be fretting all day long about the law of nourishment,
you will simply be taking your meals and getting on with your
work. The result is that you are able to work, able to go on; you
are nourished.
The law of the Spirit of Life in
Christ is like that. It is a law of Life, and it works out in a
practical way when respected and honored. It works out
spontaneously in certain directions. It has its own results quite
naturally. The law of the Spirit of Life in Christ is that law by
which we become aware. That is the simplest way of putting
things. The Lord Jesus knew that at a certain time He could not
act, could not speak; He had no movement of the Spirit in
quickening, no Life to do so at that time; in His spirit there
was no movement of Life; the law was not active in the positive
way. But when the Father, Who knew what was required in speech or
action, saw that the time had come, He did not bend down and
speak with an audible voice into His ear, and say, "Now is the
time! Say this! Do that!" He simply quickened Him inwardly. The
law of Life became active in that direction, and He knew by an
inward quickening what the mind of God was. That is what Paul
means when he says, "The mind of the Spirit is Life."