Joni and Friends 21st January 2022 Devotional | Friday Message
TOPIC: Law and Liberty
Scripture: “So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law.”-Galatians 3:24-25
Joni and Friends Today’s Message
Sometimes the sins we commit are not moral ones but spiritual. We cultivate a legal attitude toward God, and that’s wrong. Christians start out in the Spirit, but when it comes to daily living, we try to perfect ourselves by the flesh.
The Law says, do these things and you shall live, but the Gospel says, live and these things you will do. The Law commands us to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, and mind; the Gospel says that this is love: Not that we have sought God, but that he loved us and sent his son tao atone for our sins.
The Law demands holiness, but the Gospel gives holiness. The Law makes blessings the result of obedience, but the Gospel makes obedience the result of blessings. Under the Law, the old man was restrained, but with the Gospel, the new man is given liberty.
If we are right in our inward being, we shall certainly do right in our outward actions. This is what Christian liberty is all about.
Also Read, Rick Warren Daily Hope 21st January 2022 Devotional | Friday
Picture a woman who is a servant in a house and under the law of her master whom she tried to please. She’s paid a wage. She does her duty. But then, the master offers her his love and lifts her up from her place of service to be his bride and share his wealth. She may continue to do the same things, but now she does them with a different motive—love not duty!
Pray: Lord, my old sense of duty is now lost in my new sense of love.
Joni and Friends 21st January 2022 Devotional Today
This devotional is taken from Diamonds in the Dust – By Joni Eareckson Tada
