Galatians 3:24
“Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.”
Here Paul describes the law as being our schoolmaster. A schoolmaster, though the term has largely faded from our language, was responsible for two things with his charges. The first was to provide them instruction that they might grow in knowledge and second to use discipline measures to make them walk in a proper form of living. The law did the same for the natural Israelites. It instructed them in the ways of Godly living including worship, moral living, and looking to better things to come. When they walked out of those ways discipline was used to correct the walk. However, after Christ came we are brought out from under the schoolmaster for we have full knowledge of the working of Christ Jesus and it becomes up to us to choose how we live our lives. We are no longer children in the sense that we cannot choose whether or not to be obedient. Let us choose, therefore, to be faithful each and every day.
Thoughts and Meditations of Elder J.W. Cunningham 