Perfect

 For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. – Hebrews 7.18-19

 

It must have been a difficult time in the early church. Many of the new believers were Jews who had spent their whole lives trying and struggling to keep the law. It was all they did. It was at the centre of literally everything they did.

 

It must have been really hard for them to just lay that aside. It must have been hard to switch over a live by grace admit that we are now made perfect without any effort on our own.

 

But what a relief it must have been when they realised that it was all true. They were freed from the Law. The Law had done its job. It had been the schoolmates to draw them to Christ, and now that it had done that it no longer had dominion over them. The Law was done and they were liberated. 

 

The Law could make nothing perfect – but Jesus could