Abiding in Laws...

The Laws am referring to are those stated in Bible. In Galatians Paul actually said that the Law bring curse! Huh? ??? Big time ??? Haha… A good friend of mine had told me before, we need to practice our lifestyle according to the Word of God BUT don’t fall into legalism! Er… What the heck is legalism? To me a law will show us the boundaries and limitations that we need to practice in our lives. WRONG!!! Laws in the Bible are meant to expose sins! That’s all it does!

So what is legalism? Now… I’ve come to my senses – It means Christians who live by a list of “don’ts” and believe that God’s favor is earned by good behavior. Well, I must say good behavior don’t earn us God’s favor, having humility, obedience to His call and a contrite heart is what draws and earn God’s favor!

So are you stuck with a legalism mindset? Let me bring out some of the legalism symptom for you, so that you can check and see if you have such mindset. Ready? Here it goes:-

1) You feel guilt about yourself when you come into the presence of God instead of His Love.

2) Feels guilty and inadequate all the time.

3) You will hate yourself instead of exercising humility.
Please don’t get humility wrong and think that by hating yourself is humility! Humility is knowing our true position before God and having a righteous, pure and contrite heart.

4) We stress performance rather than relationship with one another.

5) We think we have fallen so far short instead of recognizing what Christ has done for us.

Therefore legalism is super impossible to achieve and no joy to be in. Let us not be stuck with such mindset BUT know that God has already set us free from all such legalism! BUT that doesn’t mean the law is not important. The law is still important for us to understand and abide to! Being a Christian allows us to have a fullness of life which comes with lots of joy and excitement! That’s what a Christian is all about! Not a sad life!