God stands at the gate like the gather of the prodigal  son waiting  for us to come to ourselves and  return to  him; to be draped  in his robe of righteousness…

Because salvation is by faith and not by works—including works of the law—some Christians claim that the law is done away with and that we no longer have to keep it. Of course, considering that the law itself is what defines sin—“I would not have known sin except through the law” (Rom. 7:7 NKJV)—this claim is a gross misinterpretation of the relationship of the law to the gospel. The existence of the law is precisely why we need the gospel.