“And this is love: that we walk in obedience to His commands. As you have heard from
the beginning, His command is that you walk in love”
2 John 1:6
When God placed Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, He said, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die” (Genesis 2:16-17). God gives you freedom, but He also puts some limitations on you. Whenever you violate your limitations, you are in rebellion against God. The only limitations of your potential are violations of God’s Word. If you do anything that doesn’t violate the Word of God, you are within your freedom. God gives you freedom to do anything except disobey Him. That’s a tremendous freedom. You are free to do anything within the context of God’s Word. If God says it’s cool, go for it, because the possibilities of your life are all connected with God.
God comes into your life with pruning shearers to free you from your disobedience and rebellion. He comes to take out those things that are stopping you from developing and growing and obeying. Anything that is contrary to the Word of God is subject to God’s pruning. He comes into your life to help you clean up your act. He wants you to enjoy the freedom of obedience and life within His limitations.
Bearing a pruning shear, God trims the useless and dead wood from your life so you can draw from Him the fresh fullness of your potential.
You are cleansed through the word Jesus speaks to you when you asked Him to forgive you. The lid on your well, put there through your disobedience and satan’s deception, has been pried off. You are clean and free to do anything that doesn’t violate God’s Word—free to be all you were created to be and do (whatever He says you can do). What freedom!—freedom that can last, so long as you remain hooked up to God. The Son is Life and the Father is the Maximizer.
God gives you freedom to do anything except disobey Him.
