Galatians 3 "Ten Commandments"

If we don't understand the Ten Commandments and why God sent them to us we are bound to use them in the wrong way and falter because of it just as Galatia did.  Paul, I think, clearly tells us in this chapter that the law was sent to us after the promise God gave to Abraham and before Christ; it was sent here to keep us in line until Christ came, that is clear.  When we forget these rules are not here for us to live our life by but here to keep us in line until we have our faith in Christ (in which case I believe the rules turn into a sort of list that shows us who is Christian and who is not following Christ by faith).  If we don't realise and remember this we will to use the faith we have and begin things in God's hands, in faith and then continue by our own hands with the law.  I have done this many times.  I pray and ask God for a chance, a way to prove myself and then when He gives it to me I rely only on myself and the tools previously given to me, such as the law, and not by faith.  I would also be faced with trials and turn to God to start and when I get on the right track I stop relying on God only to wind up off the tracks again.  The consistency is something I struggle with and something Galatia needed to understand too.