“I can do what I want! It is a free country!”
Maybe you are like me and you have said those words before. Most of the time I said it on the playground at school when someone told me I couldn’t get on “their” swing they were saving or in my classroom when my teacher told me to do something I didn’t want to do. (What I said to the teacher was almost always courageously to myself)
We love freedom and think that we are fully free. But what does freedom look like? Are we fully free? If so, what does that look like?
A person who has been unfree (enslaved) all of their life doesn’t understand what freedom is. They have just seen freedom from the outside.
In the second chapter of Galatians, Paul describes what his freedom looked like. Freedom from the slavery of being captive to the whims of “influential people” and free to impartially welcome people into relationship no matter Who they are or where they come from. Free, like Jesus, to be a friend of sinners.
Jesus is inviting us to understand his freedom from the inside. He is inviting us from a life of serving our sin and trying (with all of our might) to minimize sin through following all the rules to a life where sin isn’t our master, but we master our sin through the power of the Spirit living- powerfully- in us.
Join us Sunday evening as we walk through these things together, following a kind Master whose heart is fully free.