Today’s devotional is from Max Lucado’s Grace for the Moment
Governed by Love
In Christ we are set free
by the blood of his death, and so we have forgiveness of sins.
Ephesians 1:7
Jesus spoke of freedom, but he spoke of a different kind of freedom: the type of freedom that comes not through power but through submission. Not through control but through surrender. Not through possessions but through open hands.
God wants to emancipate his people; he wants to set them free. He wants his people to be not slaves but sons. He wants them governed not by law but by love.
We have been liberated from our own guilt and our own legalism. We have the freedom to pray and the freedom to love the God of our heart. And we have been forgiven by the only one who could condemn us. We are truly free!
Walking with the Savior
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In the face of this world we live in, trying to manipulate, nudge us one direction or another, and control us. It is good to seek God’s word on the matter.
His stance is in stark contrast to the world we live. His stance is the opposite, as we find so many times. This is why as we continue to seek Him, and do his will, we become “not of this world” as Paul stated many times. We start to feel uncomfortable and not at home.
If you begin feeling this way or are today, take heart, this is a good thing. Christ has promised to come for us and keep us from the worst. All we must do is occupy till he returns.
Occupy, there it is again, if we were of this world, then would we be occupying it? Or is that more a term used for a foreigner in a land?
May God Bless You, until Christ’s return!
