The law is a righteous interdict upon man's will. Negation never can form a Christian's ways. We want the bracing of the man morally to all that is good. How is this to be effected? As there is in Christ the communication of life, so also from Him comes the filling with the knowledge of God's will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. The believer is not treated by God as a horse or a mule which have no understanding, but as an intelligent and loving being who is brought into fellowship with God.
What is presented as God's will necessarily forms the mind, and consequently the walk, of a Christian man.
The more the Christian knows God's will, which is gracious as well as holy, happiness grows and strength too, whereas law works so as to produce misery and convince of utter weakness. [14]