Hello Altered Stories Family,
In my last article I talked about what freedom in Christ is not. Now I want to talk about what it is, and just like last time, it may not be what you think.
As I write we are in a dilemma, where we are divided over the future of America. I write more about this over at my blog, which is updated weekly and you can find it here.
I began to learn about the two ways of thinking sitting in a high school Civics class, being the only conservative student in the class, it meant for plenty of lively debates between me and the teacher.
So, what does the future of America, and my learning the two paths of political thinking mean to freedom in Christ?
In the book “This Present Darkness” by Frank Peretti. there is a girl named Sally Row through a set of circumstances, she ends up writing a series of letters to Tom Harris a Christian school master at a small church in the book. In the letters she compares the bible to a fence that helps keep you in the boundaries of its moral framework.
Those who are lost, don’t have a fence, they don’t have a set of guiding morals set by someone outside themselves.
When we live inside the fence, the Biblical framework, we find freedom. God isn’t the cosmic kill joy, he wants us to enjoy ourselves, and live life, but he wants us to follow his moral code, and you can find that code found in the Shamah, Hear oh Israel, the Lord our God is one, the Lord alone. In Hebrew, the word for “hear”, doesn’t just mean hear like listen, but it means hear and obey.
In Messianic services, we sing the Shamah to open the service every single shabbat. The Shamah points us back to the 10 commandments, in Hebrew known as the 10 words.
This idea is also echoed in the New Testament that if you love God, you will obey his commands.
Because we believe in Christ, we are free from the law of Sin and Death, and thus able to obey God’s commands, we are able to stay with in his fence that he set up around us, because he loves us.
Now let me be clear, nowhere in the Scripture does it say that the works we do will ever save us. All through the Bible you see examples of people believing God, and their faith being counted to them as righteousness.
With that, because we believe, we are called to walk in the works the Lord has laid out for us to do. We are called to live our lives within the boundaries of his fence.
My prayer is that you will walk in the calling to which you were called, and do so for the Lord, as if he alone asked you to do the work you have been given.
Now for a moment I’d like to speak to those who read this, and realize that they have been walking outside God’s fence. Maybe, they have been living life on their own terms, and ignoring him. If this is you, I ask you my friend to consider your life, and where you will spend eternity?
Yeshua Jesus said that broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are they that find it, but narrow is the way that leads to life, and few find it.
If you want to follow that narrow path, then you can call on him to save you, and he will. You just need to believe in your heart that You are a sinner, in need of God’s forgiveness. You can tell him that you are sorry for your Sin, that you believe that Jesus died on the cross for you, that he was raised to life on the third day, and that he is coming back again.
This is the Gospel, simple, but powerful.
If you have received Christ into your heart, please let us know!
Believe me, there is true freedom living life inside God’s fence.
God bless,
Teresa
