Do You Think That Learning the Letter of the Law Is a Stage of Development?

Do you think that learning the letter of the law is a stage of development? Or do you think tat you can begin from this place of conversion and the spirit of the law? I'm not sure i really thought about. A dear end of mine, last weekwhen e we were together, and she said her two, almost three year old daughter came in in the morning and said, i love jesus in my heart. And  her mam said to her, what does that feel like? And she said, it feels happy. We start with at the very beginning, our sense of our love for the saviour and his love for us, and then everything else