GOD'S COMMANDMENTS KEEP US FROM WANDERING IN THE DARK

Much could be said under the heading I've given this post.  Certainly one could launch into a disquisition on the 10 commandments, but I simply want to jot down a few perspectives I have "bumped into" during the last few days.  In a 1991 book titled How My Mind Has Changed, various theologians gave their answer to the book's title.  Elizabeth Achtmeier, then adjunct professor of Bible and homiletics at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, titled her response: "Renewed Appreciation for an Unchanging Story."  After recapping the Biblical story, she wrote:

I have come to a new appreciation of the place of law and commandment in the gospel, in both Old and New Testaments.  Obedience to the divine law does not form the basis of our relationship with God, but is rather the outcome of it.  God redeems us by the cross and