Getting it right

Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. (Romans 10:4 NIV)

I love this rendering of a key passage, in the NIV. I am quite persuaded that much present debate on appropriate behaviour and ethics among Christians would be enhanced if there was less 'anti-law' attitude: as if God should never have come up with the instructions He gave to His people, as recorded in the Books of Moses.

To understand that Jesus completes, rather than displaces, the Law of God. And that there are patterns of righteousness that are expected of the Christian. To refuse to betray an understanding of God's love, as found in the narratives of Scripture with anthropomorphic, romanticised notions that, ultimately, will lead us to deny the Cross.

Now, that would be a good beginning for a New Year.