'You were running well, who hindered you from the truth? This persuasion is not from him who calls you'
'It was for freedom that Christ has set you free, stand firm therefore and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery'
Paul's heart for the church was that they didn't trade the freedom Christ had won for them for a relationship of legalism and works of the flesh
We can't do anything to please God through our own efforts, we have died and the life we live, we live by faith in Christ who loved us and gave himself for us (Gal 2:20)
Do you sometimes catch yourself like me trying too hard...trying to hear him, trying to work for him, trying to love him, trying to please him
Don't be persuaded by the the one who lies to us and accuses us...the father of lies
When I think of our children who are loved and adored by us they don't have to earn this love or try hard to please us to stay in the family... they are simply loved because they belong. Nothing they do can stop us loving them
A servant or a slave has to work to please his master but as Paul writes, you are a son and because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.”
Remember when you received Christ. You had nothing to bring him other than your brokenness... what joy you knew, what peace filled your heart. You knew you had come home...why then having done nothing to earn his love, the love which he loved us with when we were far from him do we try to earn it now? It's foolishness Paul tells the Galatians
For whom the son sets free is free indeed!!!
