Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God. -Romans 3:19

Much of life is spent trying to prevent failure or covering it up when it happens. As it stands, neither strategy works. It is bad enough that your ideas of failure miss the mark. How much worse when your true failures are laid bare before the eyes of God and His Law.

As long as you are born of a woman, you are under the Law of God. Therefore the Law of God is speaking to you when it demands total fear, love, and trust in Him. In consideration of this, nothing is left to be said when failure of any kind happens.

There is instead a Word to be received, namely, the Word of Christ, whose obedience as One born of a woman, born under the Law, satisfies the most stringent demands of God. It cares not a whit about the laws of man and his petty notions of offense.

This Word is freely offered and given, daily and richly in Christ's holy Church, where His pastors preach and apply the benefits of Christ's obedience. For this reason there is no need to think failure is yours either to prevent or hide. It is rather yours to confess in repentant faith, because God the Father is intent on chasing you down and seeking you out in and through His only Son.

Whatever accountability is yours due to failure, Christ Jesus has borne in His body on the Cross, and washed away by His resurrection from the grave.

The righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the Law, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe. -Romans 3:21-22

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