Protection
Why do shopping carts need protection? You’ve seen them in parking lots, lined up in
a row corralled by guard rails. Why not
leave them by your car or on the sidewalk?
The next person will surely bring them into the store on their way
inside. What harm can come from shopping
carts scattered across the supermarket parking lot? If your car is marked with a ding or a dent
on the door, you know what can happen.
How about that space you thought was open but there is a cart sitting
dead center. Run away carts can create a
host of problems as unsuspecting drivers course down the lanes. Children and
the elderly occasionally have to dodge unmanned carts. Left unattended and in the wrong place, carts
can be dangerous. The carts are secured or
under guard to protect people and property.
Galatians 3:19
19 What purpose then does the
law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the
Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed
through angels by the hand of a mediator.
Galatians 3:23
23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard
by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.
Why does man need protection? God thought enough of us to put mankind under
the watchful guard of the law. Man’s
propensity is to live out of control, causing havoc to ourselves and
others. The law was given to reveal sin
and to protect us until the Seed, Jesus Christ would come. The law or guard directed us to our only
means of justification which comes by faith in Christ. With saving faith we can live holy and
righteous lives not because we are under guard but because we are under grace
and that is the best protection of all.
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