Galatians 5:1
“Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.”
har·ness (härns)
1. The gear or tackle, other than a yoke, with which a draft animal pulls a vehicle or implement.
2. Something resembling such gear or tackle, as the arrangement of straps used to hold a parachute to the body.
3. A device that raises and lowers the warp threads on a loom.
4. Archaic Armor for a man or horse.
tr.v. har·nessed, har·ness·ing, har·ness·es
If that is the way you feel, get rid of it right now because it is definitely holding you back. We cannot walk around with all that weight. The scripture says in Galatians 5:1 “Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.”
For so long I have felt like a person who is continuously held back with a harness. You will see the one picture of a horse pulling a cart and it’s quite a heavy one. Don’t you feel as if you’re pulling one right now.
When you cannot let go of the things that is weighing you down, you will always be held captive like an animal working in the field always pulling, always pushing but getting nowhere. If you feel you are always second best to friends, I am telling you today, YOU ARE HELD CAPTIVE BY A HARNESS. Let go my friend, let go and don’t look back. We are in Christ, a new person, no longer in bondage, but FREE, or do you still want to be like Paul describes in Ephesians 2:
1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.
3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.
Or are we what Paul says from verse 4
4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions − it is by grace you have been saved.
6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God −
9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
LET THE HARNESS GO TODAY AND EXPERIENCE REAL FREEDOM TODAY!!!
In His Love
Leslene
