Living to the law

After Romans 7:1-6

Living to the law

is abiding in death,

for the way of the law

is the way of death,

the path to oblivion.

The law brings knowledge,

like the bite of the apple, and

it brings passions, and

passions take control and

command us to death.

Released from the law,

our chains broken and

cast aside, we walk in

a new way, the new way

of that Holy Wind.

Who knew?

Photograph by George Hodan via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.

The law of death

After Romans 7:1-6

We chafe at is restrictions,

its do’s and don’ts, this thing

we call the law. We are 

free of the law only when

we die, breaking free from

the chains of rules and

statutes and amendments

and codes.

And so

when we die to death,

when a new birth lifts us

above the law, the way

of death, no longer are we

creatures of the law but

creatures of love,

belonging to each other,

belonging to the one

who died and

lives again.

Photograph by Kai Stachowiak via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.