November 24, 2011

Galatians 4:15 (NIV84) — 15 What has happened to all your joy?.....

When we start following rules and regulations, religious dogma that is based on keeping something, or the law itself, then we lose our joy. It shouldn’t be hard to understand why. It is precisely because we become a slave again and who doesn’t lose their joy when they are in slavery. It is so insidious, so slick, so controlling that we tend to be swooned away by what sounds good only to be enslaved into some behavior by rule. It is not the behavior that is necessarily wrong, it is our motivation, where our heart is, that establishes us under slavery of “DOING” again.

Galatians 4:30 (NIV84) — 30 But what does the Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

God wants us to “BE” and not “DO”! There are any number or reasons for this but I’ll give you a big one, because being will always end up doing something accordingly, while doing will never change who we are in Christ.