Galatians 4:8-12 NLT

Before you Gentiles knew God, you were slaves to so-called gods that do not even exist. So now that you know God (or should I say, now that God knows you), why do you want to go back again and become slaves once more to the weak and useless spiritual principles of this world?

Galatians 4:8-12 NLT

What gods do we end up being slaves to?

What our culture tells us,  the "shoulds" that come from our upbringing, our peers, the place we live and the messages that we consume, the voice in our head, "success", and then there's our coping mechanisms, the things we turn to, our small or big addictions, all promising something.

But now that we know God, or as Paul puts it "should I say now that God knows you", we're invited to challenge all that inner noise and all those external voices, and allow the freedom we have in Jesus to give us room to be ourselves, to breathe, to rest, to find ourselves again.

In Jesus we don't swap one kind of slavery with another, but are redeemed to freedom.

Paul's warning here is about our human tendency to go back.

Back to Egypt, to the familiar, to what we know.

In Jesus we're invited to stay in the mystery, the unknown, the next step, in the world of faith, trust, knowing that we are not just known, we are Beloved.

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