The images a child forms of what it means to be a Christian will naturally include morality and a code of ethics. We are incapable of abstract thought, so we move to a level which we can understand.
Hopefully, as we mature (scripture speaks of eating meat rather than only drinking milk) we will begin to understand that we are striving to something different that obeying a particular set of rules.
Again, from O Chambers: Christian perfection is not, and never can be, human perfection. Christian perfection is the perfection of a relationship to God .... God is not after perfecting me to be a specimen in His show-room; He is getting me to the place where He can use me.
May your Lenten journey affirm your identity as a child of God; might it encourage you to strengthen that identity; and may you become more useful to the God whose purpose is to extend grace.
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