Oh how your law upsets me!
It drives me to remind myself of your grace so I can cope with it.
Your commandment makes me hyperventilate with anxiety
so that I have to recite to myself, “God really loves me and has forgiven me; I don’t have to earn anything.”
well, that’s because David used ‘law’ improperly as a metonym for the gospel.
O_o
This seems to be a natural (disastrous) outworking of the law/gospel hermeneutic. If “law” always means and functions as “covenant of works,” then we have to watch out for law-like stuff in the Bible. It’s not what it seems. It’s a trick to get us to trust in ourselves and try to autonomously merit righteousness. We must be suspicious of any imperatives and interpret them all as absolute, ideal standards no one can approach unto. Anyone who tries to abide by the commands or talks about following them is a pharisee, rabbi, legalist, neonomian, whatever.