quit being a "law man"

Galatians 2:20 (The Message)

19-21What actually took place is this: I tried keeping rules and working my head off to please God, and it didn't work. So I quit being a "law man" so that I could be God's man. Christ's life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not "mine," but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I am not going to go back on that.

Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God's grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.


~I love this account of scripture and especially how it reads in "The Message". I love the idea of getting away from being a "law man" and becoming a man who identifies myself with Him. His life showed me how and enables me to do it. I love this, "my ego is no longer central".
~I live by faith in the the Son of God who loves me and gave Himself for me (and you) and I will not back down on that
~May I live in my freedom and not go back to my former way of living