Gisele Bundchen: Brazilian supermodel, brand ambassador, yoga master, wife to famous footballer and mother. Now infamous for stating in a Harper’s Bazaar interview that there should be a worldwide law making all mothers breastfeed for a minimum of six months. Usually I don’t care for celebrity opinion pieces but this fact caught my attention: Gisele breastfeed her own son for only three weeks.
In many ways Gisele is unlike us (see opening sentence) but I think this incident reveals that in fact she is just like us. What do I mean? Gisele set a standard (law) for herself and others to obey. But then she didn’t follow the standard herself. Hypocrite! But before you throw your rocks, haven’t you had that happen to you plenty of times too? Diet plans gone awry anyone?
So if we can’t even keep our own laws, how on earth are we going to able to keep God’s laws which are a much higher standard than the laws we set for ourselves? (see Luke 10:27)
Don’t despair! There is a way for lawbreakers like us to make it in God’s eyes even while we are not making it in our own eyes: through faith in the One who kept the law on our behalf. “So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins. He did this so that the just requirement of the law would be fully satisfied for us, who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit” (Romans 8:1-4).
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