NO LONGER TIED DOWN

Galations 5:1 NLT So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law.

Spiders and their webs give me the heebee-jeebies and as I looked out my window the other morning I saw a little beetle caught by one leg in a spider’s web on the window sill. He was tied down and no matter how hard he tried he couldn’t free himself. I felt so sorry for it I went out and set him free as there was no spider there anymore!

It made me think how we can be caught by just one thing, maybe by one weakness, one bad habit and it has us tied down and we feel like we can’t get free. But the good news is Jesus came to set us free from everything that the enemy has tried to hold us down with.😊

It might just be a wrong thought which keeps recurring, a worry that won’t leave us alone, or a bad attitude that pops out our mouths when we least expect it, but shows what is really in our hearts! Maybe it’s a physical addiction you’ve tried and tried to break free from but with no success. The wonderful truth is Jesus has already set us free if we’ll recognise what He has already done at the cross.

I heard of a man who had unsuccessfully tried for years to give up smoking and the pastor told him to keep thanking the Lord all through the day that he was already free from it and that he didn’t need to do it anymore, even though he was still lighting up cigarettes all day! It made no sense to him but he obeyed and after several weeks of confessing Jesus had already set him free, the revelation of it hit him one day, and he suddenly realised he really was free and he didn’t want to smoke any more! He was completely delivered.😊

Jesus is our Deliverer, the only One who redeemed us from the curse of the law and all it tied us to, which means He has set us free as well. So let’s ask for greater revelation of our freedom, and lay hold of it for ourselves. 

Holy Spirit give us a breakthrough of understanding of all we already have in Jesus, so we can enjoy the freedom He died to give us. Thank You Lord. Amen.