Set Free

DEVOTION

HEBREWS

SET FREE

Heb 9:15

15 For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance — now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

NIV

There is but one mediator between God and men and that is Jesus Christ. It is puzzling why when people have been set free from the yoke of bondage they insist on creating another yoke to place upon themselves. Why would people who have been set free from sins committed under the first covenant create so many rules and regulations to live by, that is fact, they cannot actually live by them? Why would people what to burden themselves with such overwhelming rules and regulations? Has not Jesus set us free from all that? There is no question we should live to please God, but He also said that it is impossible to please Him without faith. The greatest pleasure we can bring Him is to accept Christ as our one and only mediator, as our Lord and Savior, trusting in His sacrifice for our sins. Trying to abide by a set of rules and regulations that man has determined to be the correct way to live as a Christian is simply not in accordance with God’s Word. Yes, God has established certain principles that we should live by. Yes, God has declared the way we should conduct ourselves, but not as a written law, but He wrote them on our heart. Yes, the Bible is a written declaration of God’s will for our lives. But it is not by this code that we are saved. If we could abide fully by every percept within the Word of God then there would have been no reason for Jesus to come. We endeavor to live by these percepts because of our love for God, not for our salvation. Yet still some would continue to add more and more rules, more and more denominational dogmas and regulations declaring they have the right to impose such yoke upon people in order to become members of their group. What have we become? Is power over others that important? Who has the right to judge his brother? Who has the right to impose anything upon his brother? Are we not all sinners saved by grace? Do we not all need Jesus as our mediator between us and God? Isn’t that enough? Not one of us can live under the law of God, much less and law of man. We simply cannot attain perfection, so we are left with our failure, and our need for Jesus. Let us look to Jesus for salvation, for our eternal inheritance that is promised. We are free indeed, because Jesus has set us free.