Maybe you’ve heard of this true story before but even so I will tell it again. 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 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 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 free so 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.

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 come to Jesus but attempt to remain under the law for knowing how to live. This is not the way of the New Covenant though and it is very limiting. Jesus came to set us free from the law. He came to break condemnation off of our lives and establish 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 and before are open fields of grace in which to adventure with Him! I pray that today you will venture out with Him in faith into those open fields and make discoveries of just how wonderful it is to be His and be free in Him!