NOTES for Hos 8:11-13
“I wrote for him the important things of My law, but they were regarded as something foreign,” says the Lord. Why, in fact, did He give us His commandments? Simply so that He would have something to say? To complicate our life and create unnecessary problems for us? Or are His laws, as He tells us in today’s reading, truly important? Many people like to dismiss rules and commandments, saying that the New Testament abolishes everything that came before. But Jesus Himself says that He came “not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it” (Matt 5:17). Yet we regard His laws as foreign and useless...