A Covenant Switch

Live Free

(Excerpts from Danny Silk’s book “Loving Your Kids On Purpose)

Freedom is a top priority in Heaven, because it is what makes relationships possible. God is less interested in compliance and much more interested in love.

Let’s take a look at our relationship with our Heavenly Father as His children.

Our Father wants us to live absolutely free lives in an environment of unlimited options MORE than trying to keep us from sin. God relates to His children (us) under the New Covenant He made, not the Old Covenant.

In the Old Covenant He related to His children from the outside in… if you sinned you got leprosy, or stoned, etc. Now under the New Covenant He relates to us from the inside out.

In the Old Covenant or external governing system the motivating force in the relationship with God came in the form of blessings for obedience and threats of punishment for disobedience.

Many of us continue to raise our children according to that Old Testament model. It is common to believe that mistakes/sins must be punished. This puts the parents in a punisher role and creates an outside-in approach to our children.

In the New Covenant God relates to us in a new way. “I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” Our sin was punished once and for all through Jesus taking it on the Cross.

As a result, punishment, wrath, and intimidation have all disappeared from His attitude toward us. God is a safe place. Love and freedom have replaced punishment and fear! We can boldly approach the throne of God. 

Take a minute to do a heart check… do you still feel if you sin God is right there to punish you? Or have you made the complete switch in Covenants and know that when you sin He is there with open arms to love you unconditionally?

Let’s challenge the urge to trace it back to our failure every time something bad happens. Let’s begin to embrace the fact that our God is a God of freedom, not a God of control.

“Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty” 2 Corinthians 3:17 He cares about freedom so much that He was willing to sacrifice his Son to restore the freedom that we lost through sin!

More to come … J