Everyone wants to be free. We all want to experience liberty, even though we are surrounded by obstacles to what we might like to think is total freedom.
God offers us true freedom, not based on human values, but in His. It’s the liberty of a Father giving license to a son or daughter.
Freedom can only be truly accessed from within a set of defined values otherwise there would be unrestrained chaos. There has to be structure to permission even though this can seem contrary to an ideal of liberty. We give freedom to our children within the set of values that safeguards their interests without over-regulating their existence. There are boundaries to consent.
Values
True liberty can only come through a relationship with God which involves His set of values, including the knowledge and application of right living.
God has allowed for two basic commandments which apply to every circumstance. First of all, we are to love God with all our heart, mind and being. The second is like it, that we should love our neighbour as ourself.
According to this spiritual law, the governing reality of liberty is love. The overarching prism of life is filtered entirely through love.
Not the kind of fickle human love that can be intense one day and deflated the next. No, this is the kind of love that comes out from God Himself. God is love (1Jo.4:16). This kind of love comes from Him and is actioned through a relationship with Him.
Love is called the perfect law of liberty. You see, if we could love as God loves we would be able to love even the seemingly most unloveable. This is how God is towards us, isn’t it. Even those of us who have ignored or even resisted God for so long in our lives.
It’s not until we accept His free offer of salvation by grace through faith that we realise the depths of His love towards His creation. We are kept in ignorance by anti-christian spiritual forces, blinded by false ideology and philosophy to the reality of God’s presence and His deep, heart-felt desire to be in our lives as a fulfilling influence.
What we essentially need is the spiritual liberty that only comes through the love of God.
In this world there will be oppression until the day Jesus comes for the Church at the end of this age. He said that, “in this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer for I have overcome the world.”
The systems of the world have been corrupted through sin. It will be so until this eon ends. Sin is literally falling short of God’s commands to love Him and to love each other.
The love option
If and when we love God we will know Him as He is and understand the dimension of Hid love towards us. When we love God we will discover how to love people. We will written within our spiritual heart the conditions of that love, or rather the unconditional love that comes from Him. It will become a loved experience for us.
When God gave Moses the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai He gave the blueprint for successful living. However, the sin nature within humans found it impossible to live up to those standards on a constant basis.
That nature came because the original humans were unable to obey a simple command in the Garden of Eden, God’s perfect gift of paradise to humans. They took and consumed what belonged to God and it opened their eyes in the wrong way.
They saw things they were not equipped to deal with. They were faced with decisions that were not theirs to make. Previously their innocence allowed them to live in amazing freedom in paradise on earth. All was well until they coveted what belonged exclusively to God.
The human problem of the lack of true liberty is living outside of God’s love. It’s empowered when we break God’s love commands. Do we love God wholeheartedly? Do we always love others? If we sin against our neighbour we sin against God. One sin will do it.
The good news is that He has made the way, through His own sacrificial love, to bring us back into connection with His level of love. When He sent Jesus to take our place and relieve us of our punishment for sin, which is death, God had in mind many who would come into the presence of His love; His perfect law of liberty.
The cross of Jesus was our redemption that wiped out all ordinances that were against us, releasing us from the penalty for a love-compromised condition. His resurrection was our liberation day. We are free when we accept the offer of salvation, when we say “Yes, Lord”. Instantly. Guilt free. Made right before God.
Liberation day is every day.
