108 - Freedom Through Christ

John 8:36 NASB

“If the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.”

Galatians 5:1 NASB

“It was for freedom that Christ set us free”

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Christ Jesus through the gift of Himself made us who we are, wholly recreated and reborn, and in the act of His making we were set free. Set free from a focus, the idea that we can make ourselves, to gratitude overflowing. That overflow is a state of being. A mindset where we believe with all our heart that we are who He has made us. That acknowledgment changes our minds, and in nourishing that understanding our lives are progressively transformed from the inside out.

Since we are priests of God Most High, His holy and righteous saints, we see ourselves as such and in turn our lives naturally, authentically, and genuinely move in ever increasing measure in line with who He has made us. A transformational growth process, from one degree of glory to another, brought about by the power of God. Not by the letter of the law, but by the Spirit who declares us to “be.” Not continually focusing on our walk in the flesh, but through the redeeming sacrifice of Christ seeing ourselves as He sees us. “For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace.” “For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”

Jesus said, “come to me all who are weary and heavy laden,” and “you will find rest for your souls,” as one would find a gift of great price. He calls all those who are weary with this world and its constant striving to be, and heavy laden with the weight of guilt, the continual reminder of our lack apart from Him, to come. To take upon us His yoke and to learn from Him. Not the yoke of our own contrived self-righteousness, a construct of self will, or to continue in the pattern of this world whose inhabitants spend their lives seeking to become something. For we are already something marvelous, and what we possess is of far greater value than anything this world according to its pattern could ever offer.

Christ teaches us through Paul the apostle that we are transformed by the renewing of our minds. Not the repurposing of the old, but an entirely new way of thinking. Not just adding to what we already think and believe to be true according to this world, how it has taught us to see ourselves, but by setting our minds on things above, on what is spiritually right and true. About God, about who He has made us and how He sees us, that our lives might grow to overflow in the expression of the New Creations we are.