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Mattie, I believe that your meditation reflects the heart of God, which is the Spirit of Christ, and the Good News of the Resurrection. It is not hard to find examples in scripture of those who came to Christ because they met HIM, not because they received a lecture on law. Ex. Zacheus. God’s Spirit can convict better than any of us, and sometimes when we try too hard to pronounce law and condemnation, we quench the Spirit. Not only that, we risk becoming Satan’s instruments of condemnation and shame, and do little to inspire faith in our beloved Lord. (see Rom. 6)

The law in itself condemns, but it also points to our need for Christ. The question is: Do we use Law as a tyrant or as an instrument for salvation. It all depends on what God’s grace means to us and what we have experienced of it. After all, we can’t give what we don’t have. Have we experienced grace for ourselves? Or are we ourselves still reliant on our own fleshly ability to keep the law?

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Diane