Live Freely, Motivated by God’s Spirit

“There is a design God has woven into the fabric of this world, and if we violate it we cannot hope to find life. Because our hearts have strayed so far from home, He’s given us the Law as a sort of handrail to help us back from the precipice. But the goal of Christian discipleship is the transformed heart; we move from a (child) who needs the Law to the (adult) who is able to live by the Spirit of the law. ‘My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God’s Spirit. Then you won’t feed the compulsions of selfishness … Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way’ (Gal. 5:16, 23 The Message).”
~John Eldredge