In popular culture it’s not uncommon to hear of people longing for a life of no rules—pining for a place where there are no Ten Commandments. Yet to throw off the Ten Commandments leads not to joy but to destruction. As a rule for life, the law of God is like railroad tracks.25 For a train to move efficiently and properly, it needs the rails. This is not a burden; this is how a train was designed to work. Few methods of transportation are as efficient as trains. Yet a train off the rails goes nowhere. Just as trains need the tracks, so the law of God shows us what God desires of us as we live
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