I mentioned in prayer the other day that our path from Egypt to the promised land, that is, from our slavery to sin to our joy and freedom in Christ, is the way of the cross. Of course, we understand that Christ's sacrifice was the price for our deliverance, that He is our water and manna in the desert (symbols that had far greater meaning to those who lived in that environment in a far more technologically primitive time than ours), that he is our way into the loving kingdom of God the Father.
Yet what was foremost in my mind is more along the lines of my last post. It isn't that we must purchase our own deliverance and freedom by sacrificing ourselves as Christ did. Rather, if we have truly received this wondrous gift, one of the ways we will share it with others is to love as Christ did, with self-sacrificial abandon.
"As the Father has sent me, so I send you."
The more we love in this way, the more we will discover ourselves living in the freedom of Christ's love rather than our former self-centered slavery and death.
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