We make choices every day of our lives on some level.  Some may be small, seemingly insignificant choices, while others are major and life-altering.

There’s no way anyone can deny the fact that our choices impact our lives.

Scripture speaks of a curse that can result from a wrong choice.

Galatians 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Being under the law means being under a curse.  Choosing to look to the law for how to live as if it could lead to our being right with God in any way is a curse.  It is a curse because such thinking is wrong to start with, and being attached to the law in this way cannot do anything for us.  No one has kept the law, and Jesus did not die to make us able to keep it in our flesh.

To make the law the central issue is a wrong premise to start with.  The promise of Christ was the central issue way before the law was ever given.  Christ Jesus is meant always to be the central matter of importance and the object of our faith.

Galatians 3:15 Brethren, I speak in the manner of men: Though it is only a man’s covenant, yet if it is confirmed, no one annuls or adds to it. 16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ. 17 And this I say, that the law, which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should make the promise of no effect. 18 For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

The promise of God was to Abraham and his Seed singular.  It was a messianic promise!  It was a promise of a redeemer to come.  This promise was made 430 years before the law ever came into existence.  The idea of the New Covenant existed well before the law, and the law cannot make it of no effect.  The law cannot replace this promise, nor can it fulfill it.

Galatians 3:19 What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. 20 Now, a mediator does not mediate for one only, but God is one.

When it says God is one, it is talking about the fact that the New Covenant is mediated between God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.  The law was mediated between God and man, and man has never kept up his end of that bargain.  That is why the law brings a curse.  Unless a person keeps it perfectly at every point, they are guilty of violating it at every point—that minister’s condemnation and death.

Galatians 3:21   Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. 22 But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

To live under blessing, one must live in Christ alone and have faith in Christ alone for a relationship with God.  Thinking there is another way to have and experience a relationship with God is deceptive thinking and practice, and it cannot bring blessing.  It can only bring you under a curse.