Romans 7:1-6 NKJV

[1] Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? [2] For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. [3] So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. [4] Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. [5] For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. [6] But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

I do my best to obey the law. I know what I can and can not get away with. I don't try to push the envelope (although speed limits and yellow lights sometimes test me). I know right from wrong. I make the conscious decision to do right, but "doing right" is the bare minimum.

Following the law IS NOT THE SAME as following Jesus. If we're not careful, we will misconstrue the two and become legalistic in how we view the cross. Jesus fulfilled the law with the cross. If we follow Him the way we should, abiding by the law becomes a byproduct of abiding in Him. If it looks like I am doing the right thing, it is ONLY because I am trying to do as He did.