Romans 10
Paul opens Romans 10 by talking about salvation for Israel and how they have missed it. He tells us that they missed it by designing their own rules for righteousness; in doing so, they stopped focusing on what God has told us to do.
We do this now as well. We make our own rules and regulations, our own boundaries – designed to keep “others” out and make us feel superior, part of the club. In short, we are just as guilty as the Israelites were.
Paul refers to Moses for a description of the law we need in Romans 10:8:
The word that saves is right here,
as near as the tongue in your mouth,
as close as the heart in your chest.
I really think that God was trying to tell us (through Moses) that the law we need is not written in a book, but written upon our very souls. We are born with it. We die with it. Our choice is whether we live with it.
