The Law of God and the Christian

The law of the holy God is not a ladder of merit whereby sinners seek to come to God, to win his favor and climb "into his good books;" his holy law is, rather, his appointed and required pattern of life for those who, by redemption, have been brought to him already, who already belong to him and are already "in his good books." The law of God is the life-style of the redeemed (Alec Motyer, Look to the Rock, 41).