Wednesday, July 27 - Romans 7:1-12

OK – here’s an analogy: can you be unfaithful to a dead spouse? When the spouse is no longer your spouse to you, can you not re-partner? Of course you can, according to Paul.

Paul wants to construe the end of his relationship to Torah as ‘dying’ to it, and adoption into the body of Christ as a new relationship no more adulterous than the re-partnering of one whose first marriage has ended in death.

How we construe, or make sense, of the world, is not only objective scientific observation, but also a matter of choice. Torah can shape how you read and see your world – but sin can distort how you choose to act in relation to those constructions.
What constructions have you abandoned - or which have been subverted?