In this life, the Christian will always be dealing with sin. This side of heaven, there’s no sinless perfection. God’s good and holy law is a tool that reminds us of this reality. It is a searchlight that shows us who we really are, as we deal with remaining sin that still wars within us. This rightly frustrates the believer, as we battle wrong impulses that persist. Yet we need not despair—though we’re commanded to keep God’s law, those who are in Christ are not condemned by it, for He has paid for all our sins. The law and the gospel thus work together to encourage believers to rest in Christ’s work for them.

What does it mean to make Christ the center of your marriage? Husbands and wives cannot write their own lines. They have a role to play. Marriage was designed by God to paint a picture of Christ’s love for the church, and the respect of the church for her Savior. A husband’s role is to be like Christ, and a wife’s role is to be like an adoring church who loves her husband. So when you get up in the morning, what kind of picture are you painting when you roll over in bed and see your spouse? When you have breakfast together? When you contact one another throughout the day? Let it be a glorious and beautiful picture of Christ and His church!

How should Christian’s engage with God’s law? The truth is, the believer’s relationship to the law of God will have massive consequences in your life. It will either make you a legalist, or it will make you one of the blessed of the earth. For the Christian, the condemning nature of the law has ceased. But the commanding power of the law continues, and the Bible makes it clear that the believer is always happiest when he is under its consultation. Why? God’s law is a rule of life that teaches you how to live, and when believers keep His law, He promises great blessing.