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Originally Posted by OBW

you are right to say that just meditating on the law is not the end-all to accomplishing it. But it is intended to be accomplished, not avoided. There is now a new and better way.

Psalm 56:12 I am under vows to you, my God;
I will present my thank offerings to you.
13 For you have delivered me from death
and my feet from stumbling,
that I may walk before God
in the light of life.

I was singing Psalm 56, and the melodic refrain induced repetition of verse 13... my consciousness shifted, and focused... my mind went blank and the light flooded my heart and I could “see Jesus” walking in the light of life before the Father God in heaven. “And when again He brings the firstborn Son into the inhabited earth..."

And 'the eyes of my heart' superimposed that with Psalm 27:13; about David [Christ] seeing the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. I had also been lingering musically on this line.

Psalm 27:11 Teach me your way, LORD;
lead me in a straight path
because of my oppressors.
12 Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes,
for false witnesses rise up against me,
spouting malicious accusations.
13 I remain confident of this:
I will see the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living.

I was not trying to “do” anything, just getting "enjoying", or getting “dispensed”. But eventually, when I stop singing, what to do? Ignore this word, or live it? Except that “It is now no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me…” This is perhaps Paul's point in Colossians 3 about "the word of Christ dwelling in you richly". But the obedience is still there. Christ always obeys the Father (John 8:29).

Secondly, and important: WL said that Christ was the "universality and centrality" of God’s will, move, administration, household, kingdom, economy, and so forth. This I agree with. BUT, WL said that this universal and central Christ was only seen in Psalm 2 and not in either Psalm 1 or Psalm 3. I strongly disagree; Christ may be found there, as well. Same thing with the rest of the book of Psalms: WL said no Christ found in either Psalms 4,5,6, or 7; only to be found in Psalm 8, etc, etc.

Now, I have not spent time on Psalms 4-7, but I suspect that maybe, just maybe, Christ is there, partly veiled, looking through the lattice like the Beloved in Song of Songs 2:9. As Ohio said, the OT scripture is waiting to be "mined" for Christ just as the NT is. Clearly the NT writers and readers were mining it. Why shouldn't we? Shouldn't we "eagerly examine the Scriptures daily" like the noble Bereans?

In conclusion: no, “dispensing” isn’t the end-all and be-all. But conversely, how can we obey if we don’t see Jesus going before us (Heb. 6:2)? How can the dead rise if they don’t hear his voice (John 5:28)?

I close by again quoting OBW.

... it is intended to be accomplished, not avoided. There is now a new and better way.

Yes, there is now a new and better way. Amen; come Lord Jesus.