Law Metaphors; Law is a tutor that leads us to Christ (Gal. 3:24)
Like a roadsign...
Once you are at your destination, you no longer look to or use the road signs.
Like a map...
When you arrive at your destination you put the map away. You put off your map reading personhood.
Like a mirror...
You see what you look like. Then you put the mirror away.
You don't live looking at your face in a mirror, but you live looking into the face of others.
Law focus (religion) is moral/spiritual narcissism. It is a self-focus. It is navel-gazing. It is the spiritual parable of one who is constantly checking themself out to see what they look like. Someone who is more interested in how they look than looking into the faces of those around them.
Once you are at your destination, you no longer look to or use the road signs.
Like a map...
When you arrive at your destination you put the map away. You put off your map reading personhood.
Like a mirror...
You see what you look like. Then you put the mirror away.
You don't live looking at your face in a mirror, but you live looking into the face of others.
Law focus (religion) is moral/spiritual narcissism. It is a self-focus. It is navel-gazing. It is the spiritual parable of one who is constantly checking themself out to see what they look like. Someone who is more interested in how they look than looking into the faces of those around them.
posted by GBT at
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
