Reasons why we struggle to accept grace from God part 4

Because it seems that the law is written in the epistles (letters to the church) because they tell us what to do! Let's just simplify what we mean when we say 'law' It is anything you do, thinking that by doing it you will be pleasing to God. You must know that because of the finished work of Jesus you are already as pleasing to God as you ever can be and ever will be. Col1:22,Eph1:4,1pet2:9. If you had a million years in which to try and make yourself pleasing to God it would not even come anywhere close to how pleasing you are to him today because of Jesus. The reason for instructions in the epistles is not that by doing them you will be right with God but that because you are now right with God you should aim for/expect to see morality, love, self discipline and all the other fruits of the spirit Gal5:22-23. Now these things are possible through the indwelling presence of God. i.e - Col3:9 - why should we not lie? Col3:13 - Why should we forgive each other? The tendency has been because of our bent toward performance orientated relationships that we skip all the powerful truths of our oneness with Christ, our completeness in the Godhead and the gift of everlasting righteousness and dive straight into doing the 'commands' not realising that appreciating our new identity in Christ will produce the commands effortlessly.