Today’s Scripture: Deuteronomy 12:28

“Be careful to obey all these words that I command you.”

Why was it necessary for Christ to give his life as a ransom to redeem us from the curse of the law? Why are we under a curse from which we need to be redeemed? In Galatians 3:10, Paul wrote, “all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, ‘cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the law, and do them.’” Mankind was under a curse because we had not perfectly obeyed the law of God—either in Adam or as individuals.

The curse falls on everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the law. This is an impossibly exacting standard. No college demands a perfect 4.0 GPA for graduation. If it did, only a scant few would graduate. But Paul tells us this is what the law of God demands.

Some may react strongly to the rigorous demand of the law for absolutely perfect obedience. Why isn’t 90 or 95 percent obedience good enough? Why does God insist on 100 percent? After all, even highway patrolmen usually allow a five- to ten-mile-per-hour violation of the speed limit before ticketing us.

In the final analysis, we should seek no justification from God for the exactness of his law. After all, God is God. He is the Creator who brought the whole universe into existence by his spoken command. He is the one on whom each of us depends for life and breath. He is the one who has the absolute right to establish the rules of the game, the laws by which we are to live. And he’s the one who has the right to attach sanctions to those laws for breaking them. (Excerpt taken from The Gospel for Real Life)

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