Don't Try To Be Good?

For the law always brings punishment on those who try to obey it. (The only way to avoid breaking the law is to have no law to break!) [Romans 4.15]

Food for thought. So, if one wants to be punished, then he or she should just try to obey the law.

No doubt, 2000+ years after Christ's appearance on earth, the church still struggles with the Law of Moses. Imagine a Sunday School lesson based on the scripture above... "Now, little children, don't try to be good, it will only bring punishment..." The thing is, we have no idea what to do with ourselves if we don't promote rules... Our entire system of ethics and code of conduct is based on the exact opposite of what Paul has stated here!

Perhaps, even though their motivation is wrong, God-haters may be more right in wanting the Ten Commandments removed from public places than Christ followers are to want them there in the first place... Wow, that sounds strange!

If the church is ever to break free from the Law of Moses, it will only be resultant to a focused effort to figure this out! How shall this be done? Do we dare even attempt to prescribe a solution?

It is Jesus.

Simple, huh?

And yet, I dare say, even as I write this and readers possibly read it, we still default to reliance upon the Law of Moses... God help us! When we think of the Bible, I go even further to speculate, we more often think first of the Ten Commandments, and not Jesus.

Father, thank You for Jesus. Help me to absorb the very life and teachings of Jesus (relative to all the Bible) in order to more fully understand Your love for me and Your desire to deliver me from punishment.