Using our liberty

For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” –  Galatians 5.13-14

We’ve been called to liberty. We have been freed from the Law. We are no longer in bondage to it. It is not our master.

That means we are free! There is a temptation there that since I am free I can just do whatever I want! A lot of folks take that route, especially those who have been in a system or a church that focused on externals and dos and don’ts. Many feel deprived or burnt by the experience and allow their pendulum to swing to far in the other direction and they allow their liberty to become licence without regard to their impact on others.

Praise God we are free from the constraints of legalism, but let’s remember our freedom is not about us – it is our chance to serve others out from the burden of focusing on the Law.