“…if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.”

This verse has been rattling around in my head over the last several days. I think I get Paul now. 

I’ve been thinking a lot about reconciliation lately. 

Back in the olden days, I wrote a lot of checks, I had a check register, and every month, I would reconcile my records with the statement I got from the  bank. This ensured that the bank and I lived in the same reality…