God's law and Jesus's law

Today in the One Year Bible, Paul makes an odd distinction. He does this in 1 Corinthians 9:19-10:13.

He says he's not ignoring God's law, but he's under Jesus's law. That sounds like a strange distinction, since Jesus IS God. Even taking into account the fact that he means God the Father when he says "God", that still means he's not ignoring the Father's law, but he's under the Son's law.  Wouldn't they have the same law, since they're one God in three persons?

But what we see that he means is that even though he's still obeying the spirit of the OT law, which God the Father gave to him through Moses, he is now under a higher law (which still includes the OT law in its fulfillment). This new law that encompasses the old law is the law that Jesus gives us: that is, the law of love.

When we learn to love God and others the way He intends us to, and the way He demonstrated, then we will automatically do the things contained in the OT law.

So let's pray that He fills us so fully with His love that it overflows our banks and makes us into the saints that He created us to be.

God, thanks for giving us both the OT law, and the law of love which supersedes it.