Reading through Romans 6 today and listening to Paul's thoughts about being free from the law. Freedom isn't living without boundaries and constraints. A life without any parameters wouldn't be life at all; it would be chaos! Real freedom through Christ is about being given through grace a new "end point" to life. We all have end points. An end point is that light at the end of the tunnel that guides our movement forward. In Christ, we have the "end point" of enjoying life close to the Father, living as we were created by Him to live, experiencing blessing, having things we are thankful for, and celebrating with others the thousand joys the Father has scattered wonderfully along our path. The end point for someone without faith is oneself. Without Christ, one is left to become the measure of their own life - which means all of those fears, doubts, insecurities, inadequacies, and failures loom large in our view. When we're our own end point we wonder how we could ever transcend ourselves - which we can never do... on our own.
That's why life in Jesus is freedom. It means I'm not God and God is. And that's good news.
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