For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. -Galatians 5.1
Easter is a necessary reminder. Necessary because experience can be deceptive. Take a look around, and we can see a lot of things but we often see an absence of freedom. We enslave each other. We enslave ourselves. We turn our backs on exploitation (and effects thereof) on a regular basis. Based solely on such empirical evidence, bleak outcomes seem inescapable. Enslaved to death. Excessed to death. Deathed to death.
That’s not the endgame, however. Not the goal by any stretch of the imagination. Behind the deception is the reality of freedom. It’s a reality that Christ exists in.
Box me in. Hate on me. Project expectations onto me. Label me. Kill me.
Doesn’t matter.
I’m free from brokenness. Free from death.
You interested in that freedom? Because that’s what we’re invited into. There’s a sense in which that reality is dream-like. It’s hazy. At times we taste it, but we are yet to realize it in fullness. Instead, the bitterness of our current state continually pulls us away from the ideal and entices us to pursue. But Easter is the necessary reminder that we must pursue freedom for ourselves as well as our brothers and sisters. Not the type of freedom that casts us into bondage to narcissism and indulgence, but the type of freedom that reconciles us to Christ and reconciles us to each other.
Renew and Restore
