Romans 7:8-12
8-12Don't you remember how it was? I do, perfectly well. The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of "forbidden fruit" out of it. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me. Without all the paraphernalia of the law code, sin looked pretty dull and lifeless, and I went along without paying much attention to it. But once sin got its hands on the law code and decked itself out in all that finery, I was fooled, and fell for it. The very command that was supposed to guide me into life was cleverly used to trip me up, throwing me headlong. So sin was plenty alive, and I was stone dead. But the law code itself is God's good and common sense, each command sane and holy counsel.
God gave us the law to guide us, but sin has perverted it to lead us to stumble and fall. Paul is speaking of the law and restoring it to God's intended glory, to lead us to Him.
Reading this passage of Romans was very confusing, and sometimes the law can confuse us into not understanding the meaning of the Holy Spirit. It is by the law that God's grace is able to be abundant, letting us not stumble by the law that He is given, but to come to Him and allow His grace abound.
Father, thank you for the law, because it leads me to Jesus. I want your grace and I want your Holy Spirit to guide me. Allow Your words to speak into my life. I pray that You continue to have your hand on my life. I thank you for all the things that you have blessed me with. I give you all the glory in Jesus Mighty name.
Amen.
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