Learning to Let Go of the Law
Last year, I joined a small group of women reading through Grace for the Good Girl in an online book club, and I had my world rocked. God had been working on me for a while, but this book club opened up areas of my life for Him to begin working on – teaching me how to let go of the Law and accept His grace.
As I learned, I wrote. And wrote. And wrote.
Most of what I wrote was short thoughts here and there, but in its entirety, what I wrote has the potential to be the start of a {commercially} published book.
It’s all still VERY rough and raw, but I thought I’d share a snippet of my thoughts with you and see what you thought…
Why Do I Need to Let Go of the Law?
I wasn’t supposed to be sharing my story. I was the good girl – the one without a story. I didn’t do all the bad things – I wasn’t miraculously saved from a life of destruction, full of sin and carnality. I was supposed to be writing books about the spiritual disciplines, teaching Bible studies, and showing the world the “right way” to do the Christian life.
Too bad that life is tied to the Law and is a complete farce.
The abundant life that Jesus offers can’t be found in the good girl life. Not because she’s too good – actually, it’s because she’s not as good as she thinks she is or wants you to believe she is. It’s because she isn’t the good girl, even if she hasn’t lived a life of secret sin, depression that is hidden, or rebellion that is never lived out.
The Bible says it in BLACK and WHITE: There are NONE righteous. ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
And, while we’re on the topic – the difference between your righteousness and my righteousness is infantile. Seriously. God’s holiness is so massively awesome that neither of us can even begin to try to compare ourselves to Him. So why are we rating ourselves based on each other? Seriously!
In sight of God’s holiness, we’re both wretched sinners in need of a savior.
What makes me think your need is greater than my own? Why can I accept your need for God’s grace but not my own need?
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I have pages of words and thoughts like these – pages of realizations of why my good girl life will never make me truly happy, pages of realizations that I need grace every single day, pages of learning how to let go of the law.
Would you be interested in reading more? Would this be something you’d like to see turned into a book?
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