God's Plan B

So is God’s Law Plan B?

I wonder what would’ve happened if the Israelites had run to God at Mount Sinai instead of running from Him.  I wonder whether He would have delivered them the 10 commandments and all that, or whether they would have lived a righteous life because of the relationship they had with Him.

In the New Testament era, which we live in now, we are not free from the law in that we don’t have to keep it; we’ve been given the Law of Grace.  Oddly enough, while most people think this is an easier standard, if you like, it is in fact, a much harder standard.  Grace is commonly held to be little more than getting let off the hook if we don’t meet that standard.  But it’s so much more than that.
Jesus explained that the Law of Grace is now not about DOING what’s right; it’s also about THINKING what’s right.  If you hate your brother, Jesus said you are guilty of murdering him.  If you think about committing adultery, you are guilty of it.  This is a much harder standard to live up to.  But as Christians, we see the benefits of living up to this standard, and so we want to meet those requirements.  And the benefits of living up to that standard are numerous, but nothing more valuable than intimate relationship with God.
The Law of Moses was powerless to help us achieve holiness, but the Law of Grace is our enabling power to achieve it.  It changes us from the inside out.  The Law of Grace works at our desires and motives.  We begin to want holiness, we want intimacy with God and so we start cutting out things that compromise those things.  The Holy Spirit leads us in our choices and as we surrender to His guiding, we move further and further from a life of sin.  So the Holy Spirit becomes our new guide, not the Law.  And thus, I wonder if the Law was God’s Plan B.