For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace.

Galatians 5:4

Subjecting ourselves to obedience as a means of rightness with God means we must bear the weight of obeying all the law. (They had 613 laws.) 

Holding on legalism implies your righteousness depends on your obedience. 

• They couldn’t carry the weight of the law, so Jesus carried it for them, all the way to Calvary. 
• We can’t carry that weight of the Word, so Jesus carried it for us, all the way to Calvary.

We:

• Obey, to be made right with God; we obey because we are made right with God.
• Cheapen the cost of grace of Calvary when we suggest that our obedience has anything to do with our rightness with God.

Grace was expensive, let’s: 

• Not reduce its value by trying to be right with acts of obedience.
• Live lives worthy of the price that was paid by allowing our love and appreciation to be demonstrated through obedience.

“Tongue cannot express, nor heart conceive what a terrible thing it is to make Christ worthless.” - Martin Luther

It doesn’t matter whether we have been circumcised or not. What counts is whether we have been transformed into a new creation.
Galatians 6:15

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
Romans 12:2

I love the connection of these verses. Transformation is a demonstration of our becoming a new creation.

Don’t try to be right with God; rest in the rightness that belongs to me as a result of my faith in Jesus and let my gratitude be a demonstration through obedience and service to Him.

Much Too High a Price: Larnelle Harris