A couple of snippets from the Message v.27 & 31: “God does not respond to what we do, we respond to what God does … But by shifting our focus from what we do to what God does, don’t we cancel out all our careful keeping of the rules and ways God commanded? Not at all. What happens in fact, is that by putting that entire way of life in its proper place, we confirm it.”
If we get into the whole “keeping of the law” thing the focus is on us. Trying to keep a set of rules means we are always thinking about ourselves and about whether we are doing the “right” thing or not.
Whereas when the focus is on God, His Spirit enables us to keep the law without us even thnking about it.
don’t woory, i’m still here. the family is ill at the moment and it is time consuming caring for us all and getting rest. i’ll be back tomorrow with my thoughts on 3, 4 and 5.
believe me, i know the feeling. strange how difficult it can be to set aside time or take seriously something like this that has nothing but a positive impact on my growth.
chapter 3 in short – we are all sinners according to the law. but now a righteousness apart from the law has come from god. faith.
I have been amiss here to cause a house filled with company but I am still going to try and catch up.
I love this….23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Often when a someone we know has fallen by the wayside, we forget that we too are sinners just like they are….
For some time I too wondered if I had done the right thing in various circumstances but now I just put it all in God’s hand and let him guide me without worry what is right or wrong about it.
5 thoughts on “Romans 3”
A couple of snippets from the Message v.27 & 31:
“God does not respond to what we do, we respond to what God does … But by shifting our focus from what we do to what God does, don’t we cancel out all our careful keeping of the rules and ways God commanded? Not at all. What happens in fact, is that by putting that entire way of life in its proper place, we confirm it.”
If we get into the whole “keeping of the law” thing the focus is on us. Trying to keep a set of rules means we are always thinking about ourselves and about whether we are doing the “right” thing or not.
Whereas when the focus is on God, His Spirit enables us to keep the law without us even thnking about it.
don’t woory, i’m still here. the family is ill at the moment and it is time consuming caring for us all and getting rest. i’ll be back tomorrow with my thoughts on 3, 4 and 5.
Hope the family is on the mend (not just for blogging sake, but for your sake).
Meanwhile it is getting a little lonely round here.
believe me, i know the feeling. strange how difficult it can be to set aside time or take seriously something like this that has nothing but a positive impact on my growth.
chapter 3 in short – we are all sinners according to the law. but now a righteousness apart from the law has come from god. faith.
feawqkh (i liked that one)
I have been amiss here to cause a house filled with company but I am still going to try and catch up.
I love this….23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Often when a someone we know has fallen by the wayside, we forget that we too are sinners just like they are….
For some time I too wondered if I had done the right thing in various circumstances but now I just put it all in God’s hand and let him guide me without worry what is right or wrong about it.