How foolish can you be? After starting your new lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort? (Galatians 3:3) The question at hand - can we keep the Law and be made righteous? All our efforts to be 'good' might abound, but we are only made right with God through Christ Jesus. We start well - "God help me to change this thing in my life." Then we get our own ideas about how we will change that thing and go our own way. The issue isn't that God won't help us - it is that we won't let him help us as he wants to help. We have our own ideas on how he will help. Whenever he asks for a step or two that fall outside of those ideas, we take back control. Rarely does God do things as we imagined he would. He will ask for a step of obedient faith that will challenge what we have been doing. when he does, how will we approach that step? That's what really matters - the obedience isn't condition - if we feel like it, ...
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