Galatians ch3v26-ch4v7

yesterday, Paul wrote to the Galatians, and expressed that they were now heirs of God with & through Christ:

v26 You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, v27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. v28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for
you are all one in Christ Jesus. v29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. ch4v1 What I am saying is that as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate...v3 So also, when we were children, we were in slavery under the basic principles of the world. v4 But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, v5 to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. v6 Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." v7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.

that's something that most non-Christians never seem to realize...even though we use terms like "born-again", "children of God", "God the Father", etc. everyone still seems to think that submission and obedience to God through the gift of Christ's sacrifice makes us slaves or servants as opposed to children & dependents...

it's fascinating to me how people think that real freedom begins and ends with themselves or with society as a whole...logically, these people are daft, but no one ever points it out...to be responsible/answerable only to yourself is foolish...it leads to arguments of "i say i can smack you and that makes it ok"...really, if you follow such thoughts to their own ridiculous logical end, that's the core problem...it's my morality versus yours...my will versus yours...who's to judge right and wrong?...

so they cover themselves by saying that human society sets the boundaries for what's acceptable behavior and what is not...but again, this concept places no absolutes on morality because as history shows, what societies will accept or reject with regards to moral actions or statutes changes from culture to culture and from era to era over time...some even argue that we are in a constant refining process, and that one day we will have a set of laws to take into account all possibilities of any action and will list how any and all deviations from said law should be dealt with...

so they're going to regulate your life action by action and punish you if you step out of line?...doesn't sound much like freedom to me...

given the option, i'd much rather submit myself to a Righteous and Holy God who had laid out His laws and His requirements, and rest assured that by following those laws, i will be taken care of one way or another...

after all, what Father doesn't take care of his obedient children?...