But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? (Romans 9:20-21)We keep forgetting that we're not God.
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I think if there was one verse that summed up the theme of Romans, it might be this one:
Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. (Romans 10:4)The law is important mainly because it leads us to Christ. And through Christ righteousness is available to everyone who believes. Yep, that pretty much sums it up.
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Paul is so overwhelmed with the way God has worked this out for everyone that he bursts into a beautiful song of praise and worship:
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments,
and his paths beyond tracing out!
“Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?”
“Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay them?”
For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen. (Romans 11:33-36)
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