Freedom to Love and Worship

Hey, 

Many people are confused with the reason behind the way followers of Christ live their lives. This lack of understanding can be answered very simply. Because we love God. Loving God comes along with a desire, a yearning to walk with our Savior and live in His Truth. 

Throughout scripture sin=death. And being that God is the God of life, the farthest thing from life would be death, therefore sin takes us farther away from the heart of our Creator. As disciples of Christ our desire is to be as close to God as possible; because we love God. 

Christ, through His eternal sacrifice, gave us freedom. Freedom from the bondage of sin and death and freedom to worship and love Him, not freedom to live in sin. As Peter says "Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God." (1 Peter 2:16) We have freedom in Christ's blood to love Him, because He loves us. And how we show God that we love Him is to walk in His ways.

Using lovers as an example, say one of the people in the relationship is 100% devoted and head-over-heals completely in love and pursuing the other person with everything they have. While this person is so in love, the other person in the relationship flippantly runs around with other people and maybe says "I like you," but all the while the person who is in love knows of all the other people and all the other things and is just heartbroken. But instead of backing away, they just pursue harder, love more, and give more heart. This is the way we are with God, He pursues and loves, and breaks for us, while we run around with worldly things and break His heart more and more. 

God does not need us, but He wants us. He wants our love and our adoration in return for the love and mercy that He shows us. If no one on earth acknowledged God, He would still be God. Our privilege is the freedom He gives us to live with Him, walk with Him, and call Him friend. What an awesome thought, we get to call our Creator friend. David, a man after God's own heart, speaks of walking in Truth all throughout the Psalms and in Psalm 86:11 says "Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name." 

Grace and Peace.

Luke