Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. In Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit we are free from the law and we are free from the power of sin in our lives.
Liberty is a wonderful thing. It is so, well, liberating. No longer bound we are free to live our lives. We didn’t get saved by our works and we can’t keep ourselves free by our works. We are free.
So what do we do with that liberty? A lot of folks seem to think that since we are free we can do just about anything we want.
That’s not the purpose of liberty at all. Our liberty is never to be used to serve and gratify our flesh. Our liberty is to give us occasion to love one another.
Under the law every move people made and every decision they took were limited by the chance they might violate the law. Sabbath rules may have kept people from helping the neighbour on the Sabbath. Food laws may have kept people from feeding the hungry.
Now through we have the liberty to truly ‘love God and love others.’ We don’t need to stop and weight every decision by whether or not we are going to break a rule.
The purpose of our liberty is to love each other. How are we doing with that liberty?
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