God is law, the Eternal Law. Everything outside of God, creation, or nature, is governed in every minuscule detail by the Natural Law. Both the Eternal Law and Natural Law of God govern Man to order himself according to God and Nature through the Human Law. That’s it. That is Law governing everything that exists, including God ordering Himself by His own Eternal Law as part of His own nature.
Source: St. Thomas Aquinas’ Treatise on Law.
But original sin causes us to tend to view Law as oppressive and merely man made. It is not a metaphysical dimension to everything that exists, but merely rules written in books. The Enlightenment philosophers essentially rejected Natural Law and therefore the Divine Providence of Eternal Law directing Man from above through the Natural Law, which consequently reduced the Human Law down to positivism, meaning human law is purely relative and artificial. This helped pave the way for liberalism, modernism, and now post-modernism.
Therefore, modern Man as such does not want to be governed by God, the natural order, the Church, or even government in such a way that when legitimate government passes a legitimate law it absolutely must be obeyed always because God commands that obedience under pain of sin and potentially under pain of damnation (included in the 4th commandment).
In the sense that all forms of Law govern literally everything everywhere, in that sense the Law is everything. It is everything. It gives us our life, purpose, and direction. It orders everything towards stability, unity, harmony, and charity. To the natural order and to the divine.
These are my thoughts this weekend on Law, for personal reasons.