From
Galatians 2:1-21
“Freedom!”
H,
That may be what it truly means to be free. It seems to me that the first prison is the self. If we can let go of that almighty albatross and any reaction to it, outside love, then we are set for the holies. Yet, even that thought is found in a bottle. It is trying to work out aspects of character when we must see this as a whole quest. If we try to pick and choose the changes that make us more like Christ then we will soon miss the whole point.
This is not about being a little better. This is not a character advance or a moral spurt of growth. This is a total rebirth. It is the way we are to be made more eternal than temporal, more spirit than body and more full than empty. It is not necessary that you know all of you is up for transformation when you start to make this journey. In fact, because you are constantly choosing the light or the dark it may seem that the illusion is true and all you need is small shifts here and there to make you fine. Soon you will have to face the facts: it is not that you are not good enough it is that good is not enough. There is a new way of thinking and being that makes good only a flourish of Holy. It is not even new; it is just new to you. This way has no counterpart or lesser degree. It is full on and lifelong and it will take everything but only to replace it with everything that really counts.
I had that feeling when I really learnt to kneel that there would be a new voice in everything I do. If I listen to it then I see freedom made real and peace, joy, love and all that really shape my life and set my path. If I do not then I keep trying to put a new thing on an old foundation, wine skins and wine, and thus the bondage of earth bound man continues. We will never be the person or people our heart and hearts so desperately want unless we learn to be free. It is only in that lightness away from the weights we carry that we think we need to survive, it is only when we have put down the great burden of friendship with the world system, to carry up that cross of old that is true liberty that we can begin to really soar.