Free From Limitations
Free From Limitation
When I was a boy, my Dad said to me, "Son, you can be anything you want to be, the sky's the limit!" ...which made me sad....... because I wanted to be an astronaut.
Sometimes humor can point us to the truth. Have you ever felt limited? It can be possible for someone to have limitations they are unaware of, hindering them from taking advantage of everything Jesus died to give to them.
There once was an elephant who had spent its life tethered with a rope around its foot. The rope allowed it to walk in a circle of about 30 ft. Since that was all the elephant had ever known, as far as the elephant knew, it was really living. One day the owner decided to sell it. A kind man bought the elephant and took it to a beautiful vast open space where it could be released to roam as far as it wished. But the elephant walked in a restricted circle despite the open fields and tall grasses it had to explore. It could not break free from its lifelong tethered experience in its mind. There was no longer a rope, but the elephant did not know that.
Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
It is possible to belong to Jesus and mistakenly think you need the tutoring of the law, the same as you did before coming to Christ. Such thinking runs contrary to the New Covenant and is very limiting. In a way, that is being like that elephant. Jesus came to set us free from the law. He came to break condemnation and death off our lives and establish us in the very righteousness of God so we might live by faith in Him. the Bible says,
Galatians 3:11 But that no one is justified by the law in the sight of God is evident, for “the just shall live by faith.”
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
It is not living the New Covenant life to think that righteousness can be obtained or maintained by being under the Law. A new way has been made for us.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
The rope of the Law, my friend, has been removed in Christ, and before you now are open fields of grace to adventure in with Him! You’ve been set free by His grace to enjoy a wide-open relationship with Him as His child based on the merit of Christ on your behalf. You have become the righteousness of God in Christ! Because of this, many glorious promises have been made available to you in Christ because all the promises of God are yes and amen in Christ.
I pray that today you will venture out with Him in faith into those open fields and discover how wonderful it is to be His and be free in Him! Your life is now hidden with Christ in God! What will you do today with the wonderful eternal life you received in Jesus?
