GRACE,
LAW AND

HAVE you ever seen a person with a big dog on a leash and the dog is dragging the person or the person is pulling the dog? That is the way a lot of us are living our Christian lives; we’re living it on a law leash. Stop that! Don’t do that! Come here! Read your Bible! Pray! Go to church! There is nothing wrong with those things. It’s just that a leash is jerking us around.

But have you ever seen a dog walked by its master without a leash and without ever leaving its master? The person walks and the dog walks. The person stops and the dog stops. He doesn’t need a leash because he’s got a good relationship with the dog.

You can always tell the difference between a grace dog and a law dog when you walk into a house. A law dog has its tail tucked underneath. Its master intimidates it. It’s afraid of its master. It is a miserable dog. But a grace dog’s tail is wagging when its master comes home because there’s a relationship there.427

[Grace; Jesus, Relationship with; Law, Effect of]

Rom. 7:7–25; Col. 2:20–23