My soul clings to you,Your right hand upholds me.
The moral law of Moses is not abrogated but still demanded, but met in us by Christ and will be fully accomplished in us through Christ, as and when we see him. The ceremonial is also accomplished as the antitype replaces the type as the shadow hints at and is more real in the substance. And so, the rehearsal becomes more than a play. Both righteousness and the promise become reality in Christ. The old faded ineffective, unmoving works of stone have died for the glorious living Jesus who can act and move on our hearts and breathe life into our souls. And we don’t love and delight in a shadow, but dance with and embrace the one we love. We pursue a lover, the beloved, not an unapproachable mountain. In Christ alone we live. And in Christ alone do we glory.
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ. (Philippians 3:8)
