this is what i want to learn.

"for you were called to FREEDOM, brethen, only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. " Galatians 5:13

This is the call of Christ, to follow in His path: walking out divine servanthood with all boldness, freedom, and authority, knowing that we are co-heirs with the King of kings. We are set free from the bondage of sin, so that we may then enter in to the fellowship of God as His dearly beloved children. This fellowship is so beautiful and we are invited to live out of this place, a place of freedom, healing, grace, forgiveness, bold confidence, humility, love, compassion, and joy. I don't know a lot, but I know this. This is what we were created for and surely this is also what we were redeemed for. God wants freedom for His children. Freedom from sin, freedom from unbelief, freedom from religion, from dead works, freedom from affliction, freedom from self-condemnation, freedom from expectations. It is for freedom that we have been set free. IT IS for freedom that we have been set free. God does not offer what He cannot deliver. He promised freedom, know that it is coming if you put your hope in Him. Freedom is His desire for us and if we are willing to receive what Jesus died for us to have, it's available. It's not far away, it's not untouchable. It's in the hands of God who is waiting and longing to give it to us when we ask for it in His name. God doesn't play games, and God doesn't go halfway. If God promised us something- He will give it to us, and we can have it in fullness. He cannot not be faithful to His word. We can cling to promises. We can bank on them. God does not lie. This is what He has for us.

So in this freedom (full freedom that throws off every burden) we are enabled to serve each other and love each other with the Love that Christ taught us. Seriously, when we are not walking out freedom, we are living as enslaved people. We're either just trying to make it through the day, broken down by condemnation and sin; or we are striving to prove ourselves good and earn the approval of God by our actions, which are worthless in our own strength. Either way ends up leaving us walking in defeat, and yet the spirit of defeat is the very opposite of what we were created in and for. Christ died on the cross for victory, and we receive that victory through His grace in the simple faith that we have, it's ours. So we have victory. We don't have to try to earn anything, and we don't have to live wallowing in our sin. (I feel like i'm being redundant but this is really good news, so I don't really care) In this release, we are enabled to serve. Because i'm not trying to prove myself, I am released to love the people around me freely, without expectations or hidden motives. Jesus is always the perfect example. Being free from the Law, Jesus didn't use His freedom to indulge Himself, but rather to show greater love. In freedom from the Law, He healed on the Sabbath. In freedom from the Law, He ate with the tax collectors. In freedom from the Law, He forgave a prostitute. Is this not the same way that we should also walk out our freedom? Jesus gave his disciples directions to do the same things that He did:

"Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give" matthew 10:8

All we can do in this life is to follow the example of Christ who has gone before us and shown us the way to bring glory to the Father. It's freedom and servanthood, boldness and humility, compassion and rejoicing. The seemingly paradoxical things of the Kingdom are the best parts. These are the riches of God: That it is about now what it's always been about, the blood of Christ poured out for us.

"How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God?"
Hebrews 9:14