Free Indeed
There once was an elephant who had spent its life tethered with a rope around its foot. The rope set limits on how far the elephant could go. It was about a 30 ft radius from the post the rope was attached to. As far as the elephant knew it was really living. One day the owner of the elephant needed some money and decided to sell it. A kind and gracious man came and bought it desiring that the elephant be set free. He took it to a beautiful wide open space where it could roam as far as it wished. The man removed the rope from its foot but the elephant would not go past the distance it had learned for so long in its life. It would only move about 30ft and no more even though it was no longer tethered to a post. It did not realize just how free it truly was.
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.
A life of trusting in and being governed by the law is not the way of the New Covenant. Jesus came to set us free from the law. He came to break condemnation being under the law put on our lives. His work at the cross established us in the very righteousness of God so we might live by faith in Him. The just shall live by faith.
Paul said it this way in,
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.
Your rope my friend has been removed in Christ. Before you are open fields of grace in which to adventure with Him!
Do not let some well meaning person convince you to go back under the law as a mean of keeping, enhancing or improving your position with God in any way. God is only impressed with His Sons righteousness which you already possess by believing in Jesus. God the Father is to be approached and known on the basis of that righteousness alone.
Never let anyone lead you to think the righteousness Jesus gave you was not enough. It is for freedom Jesus set you free. Do not return to any type of yoke of bondage. Enjoy and rejoice in what you’ve been so freely given by a gracious Savior. Enjoy Him today and always by simply believing in Him and in what He accomplished.
