Just Jesus

DEVOTION
GALATIONS
JUST JESUS
Gal 3:23-25
23 Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed. 24 So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. 25 Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law.
NIV
Must I deal once more with this same issue? I suppose it is good to instill this truth into the very core of my being. Why else would God what to make such a point of this? Is it because I need to understand completely about not being bond into slavery by the law or by rules established by men today which are just another form of the law? Am I so easily distracted by those things? I don’t think so, but maybe I do fall into that kind of thinking, or maybe I just am not thinking and just follow along without much thought about it at all. Sometimes I think that is the case. Maybe I just don’t want to rock the boat. If I do think about being free from the law, and from that list of do’s and don’ts then I have to stand up and speak up for the truth. I have to declare what God has stand. Do I skirt around that issue whenever I do preach, or when I am simply talking with other believers? Do I not bring it up for fear of controversy? Why would people want a list? Why would people think it is right to have a set of rules they can check off as either doing or not doing? Do they really not believe that righteousness is gained by their successfully accomplishing that list? I know I cannot just go around doing anything I desire just so the grace of God can be demonstrated in my life. I know I have to live to please him. I know there are things I can no longer engage in and I know there is a way I should live. But I cannot help think if I simply love the Lord God with all my heart, my mind, my soul and my body and love others as myself I would be pleasing God. I would be living in a manner without the law, without those rules, or list; I would be living by out my faith. And in order to love others and myself I must love myself first. That is the easy part, because God loves me and he knot me together in my mother’s womb and he simply does it right. So I am the very being he designed me to be, thus why would I not love me? So now loving those others is the harder part. I think that is it in a nutshell. No law, no rules, no lists, all they do it show me my need for Jesus, and once I have him, I need nothing else, I am subject to nothing else, just Jesus.