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For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.

James 2:10, LSB

Christ didn’t abolish the Law, but He fulfilled it. As Christians, we are to know this distinction. What does this mean? Let us focus on how our Lord Jesus Christ told us to live differently. Our lives are to be lived with a focus on our Lord and our relationship with Him. This is meant to guide our relationships in and out of the Church. The tension we live in is between our actions being guided by our desire to appear different and our desire to live to the glory of God. If we become too puffed up and think that we can live and do all things right, we find ourselves outside our Lord’s grace and have fallen. If we become too relaxed in our lives and forget God, we become like the world and also fall outside of God’s grace. Christ is ever to be in the forefront of our minds. Our work is to be ambassadors of Grace to a world bound by the Law. If we do nothing, we are of no benefit like the one servant who buried his master's talent.  Our lives are to reflect the fruit of our Lord and not be like the barren fig tree of no value to God or our neighbor. As we walk with our Lord, we walk in humble service and seek to do all that He places upon our hearts. It is not our works that save us, but our neighbor will benefit and through our actions, he may be drawn to know our Lord and His saving grace may fall upon him. In this, all may come to know His peace.

Let us pray. I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger, and I ask you to protect me this day also from sin and every evil, that in all I do today, I may please you. For into your hands, I commend myself, my body and soul, and all that is mine. Let your holy angel watch over me, that the wicked foe have no power over me. Amen.