The cost of freedom

Meditating on the passage from Galatians on freedom tonight... 'For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery...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." (Galatians 5:1, 13)

Think of the cost Christ paid on the Cross so that we might have "freedom". Do we take this "freedom" to lightly? Do we truly treasure this freedom that came at so high a cost? This freedom that exists for us that gives us life to the full (John 10:10) is one that so often is forsaken and forgotten. We allow ourselves to be enslaved again by the rules of humanity that burdens us as to what it means to be "righteous", or "holy in the sight of God".

Is this to say that there are no standards in God's "freedom"? No, but what makes us "free" is the ability to no longer have to find a way to make ourselves righteous in God's eyes, or in other words, how we can be good enough to find acceptance in God's eyes. Instead, because of the price paid at the Cross by Jesus, we are now able to accept the grace of God through Jesus to be rescued from the law of death that separates us from God due to our sin, that is a result of our disobedience of God's righteous requirement that is found in the law (Romans 8:4).

So this day, and the days to come, consider the price paid by our Lord that allows those who call Him, "Lord", to be free from the overwhelming burden of seeking God's approval.
Peace and Grace,
Jon