A loved one shared with me that they have begged God to love them. We all need a secure attachment to God’s love for us. God’s love for us falls under the category of gospel. It’s good news. It often gets neglected in favor of the bad news, the law: our love for God, and our love for others. It’s more evidence that the gospel is not written on our hearts, but the darkness of the law is written on our hearts.

Around here our speech is seasoned with salt. We can’t keep the law, and that task has been completed on our behalf by Jesus. Our relationship with the law comes to an end in Christ. This is difficult for us to grasp, because the law holds this world together. It runs the world. It also empowers sin in us to be more sinful. In God’s love for us he separates us from the law, the power of sin, and we live in the absolution. Your sins are forgiven and you are holy on account of Christ, crucified and resurrected. We are declared to be without sin.

To be separated from the law, while in Christ, is probably the highest high a human can ever feel. It’s the love of God for us. It’s to live in a perpetual state of the afterglow of a climax. On account of Christ, crucified and resurrected, we are declared to be without sin.

For those of us who have a secure attachment to the law, because it’s written on our hearts, being set free from the law sounds dangerous. The fear is that it will lead us into anarchy and lawlessness. Now that the law of faith has come, to live under the law of Moses is considered anarchy and lawlessness. In a strange twist, the law of faith separates us from Moses and sin, and we have that afterglow of being without sin. As a gift.

This is the mind of Christ. God’s love for us is that we are without sin on account of Christ’s merits. God’s salvation project is complete in us. Christians get to experience the privilege of walking through this world on this ethereal high, without law and without sin. The Joy of the Lord. The love of God for us.

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