There’s plenty of talk today about what we must do to lead a Christian life: we should spend 2 hours daily in prayer and another 2 reading Scripture, we should fast regularly, we should do this and this and this. Such rules for holy living can so easily lead to legalism. Praying and studying Scripture are important aspects of Christian life, but our sinful human flesh entices us to make rules so we can please God by following those rules.

   The Bible reveals that Christians are free from such legalistic bondage to the law (Galatians 4:9-11; Galatians 5:1; John 8:36).  Jesus has done everything needed to make us free from the law (Hebrews 10:14; Hebrews 10:18).

   We are free from the law, because Jesus has fulfilled the law in our place. It is not what we must do, do, do, but what Jesus did for us. There is nothing for us to “do,” for it was already “done” by Jesus when He cried “It is finished” (John 19:30). In Jesus, we have the freedom to show our love for God by living as His beloved children.