The Law is Good

A couple years ago our kids gave us a weather station for Christmas. Last week, during our first cold snap of the year, I sat in a warm house and watched the temperature plummet to -6 degrees. Had it not been for the weather station continually updating the data I would not have known how bitterly cold it was outside. I now have a better understanding of Paul explanation of the law. “What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead. Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death” (Rom 7:710 NIV).