Something like Chemotherapy
June 5th, 2009 by J.W.M.
“The law is something like chemotherapy. When chemotherapy is used to treat cancer, it does not give life. Actually, it is an instrument of death. The chemicals that are poured into the body destroy healthy tissue as well as cancer cells. During the course of treatment, chemotherapy actually makes the patient feel much worse. But it is all necessary for the patient’s long-term health. In much the same way, the law makes us worse so that Christ can make us better.”
(Philip Graham Ryken, Galatians, 136)
