now. Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don’t focus on rules. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus. Sometimes in our zeal to avoid sin, we set aside the grace we need to do so. Despite the fact that we’ve made a mess of things in the past, we tell God, “Thanks for forgiving me and all that. Now I’ll take it from here!” And we run full tilt into a brick wall. Then God puts Humpty Dumpty back together, and we thank him for his forgiveness, and we do it all over again. I don’t hate rules, but I think we need to keep them in their place. And more than that, we need to recognize
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