A children's game where one person stands at the end of the field, the goal, and shouts out either, "red light" or "green light". The line-up of kids on the other end of the field run at the command, "green light" and stop at the command, "red light" if the person doing the calling catches you still moving after the "red light" is spoken you have to go back to the beginning.
Had a dream/thought that "religion" sees a God who shouts, "red light" and catches you doing wrong and sends you back to the beginning. Relationship knows a God who has no condemnation for those He chooses to call sons and daughters. This God calls out "green light" and never sees the need to change to "red light". There is no fear in love, punishment is not coming our way. We do not have to sin, scripture makes that clear over and over, but "if" we do, our identity has not changed, we do not have to go back to the beginning, repentance, resets our abiding in God. Faith connects us to our true identity, our faith is in what God says about us. We are a new creation, in Christ. "Green light" let's go!
Had a dream/thought that "religion" sees a God who shouts, "red light" and catches you doing wrong and sends you back to the beginning. Relationship knows a God who has no condemnation for those He chooses to call sons and daughters. This God calls out "green light" and never sees the need to change to "red light". There is no fear in love, punishment is not coming our way. We do not have to sin, scripture makes that clear over and over, but "if" we do, our identity has not changed, we do not have to go back to the beginning, repentance, resets our abiding in God. Faith connects us to our true identity, our faith is in what God says about us. We are a new creation, in Christ. "Green light" let's go!
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1 John 3:5,6 "5 You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. 6 No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him."
Romans 6:11,12 " 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions."
2 Corinthians 5:21 "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."
Ephesians 4:22-24 "22 to put off your old self,[f] which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness."
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