Does that make sense to you? For me it made too much sense. Obvious. Until I really began to sit with it for a while. Why is it so repetitive? Why does the Lord need to tell us that freedom was the reason we were set free... like we would forget? But we do forget.
I think it is easier to forget that we are free when we forget what we were freed from.Romans 8:2 says, "For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death." Through Christ, we are brought out of sin and death. How beautiful.
Yet how do we live in this freedom? How should we live in this freedom? Galatians 5:13 says "For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another."
This freedom isn't something that we experience just once... as we live in freedom, we are to love freely and serve freely. unhindered by sin and death. We are able to live and love freely because (2 Corinthians 3:17 says), "Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."
And the Spirit lives in us. So not only do we live in freedom, but freedom lives in us. Wrap your mind around that if you can. Freedom resides in us because the Holy Spirit resides in us. That is powerful. But still we forget.At least I do... I forget the reason that Christ set us free.
The rest of Galatians 5:1 says, "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery." It was for freedom. He didn't set us free so that we could worry, so that we could hold back our joy and beauty, so that we could harbor anger or bitterness or doubt, so that we could fear. it was for freedom he set us free. So that we would be FREE.
Do not be burdened. Do not forget the freedom that Christ bought with his blood on the cross.You are free. live like it.
For freedom he set us free. And yes I am free indeed!
He rewrote my name, unshackled my shame, opened my eyes to see...
I am free.
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