I’m tired of having people tell me I need to think outside the box. I like being in my box. My box is a comfort zone of assurance of salvation and eternal life. Jesus lives in my box. He is very nice to live with. He helps carry my burdens. He assures me nothing can come my way that together we cannot handle. Some might criticize and say that is a very narrow confined way to live, but quite to the contrary. You see Jesus is already sitting at the right hand of the Father. See Hebrews 1. In John 5:24 He promises me I have already passed from death to life and on top of that I don’t have to go to judgment. I have a “get out of judgment” card. There is no point in judgment for those who have already received the gift. The promise to those who overcome is they get to sit with Him on His throne. See Revelation 3. The view from there will be stunning. Can you imagine the music?
Until then Paul tells us in Galatians 5 that we are called to live a life of freedom. We are free from guilt. We are free from existential concerns. We are free to do almost everything we want to do. I have to be honest and say “almost” everything because I am still working on a few things. But I certainly have no desire to rob my local credit union. The laws forbidding that mean nothing to me. We only feel confined when we are forbidden from doing something we want to do.
Maybe others need to think outside their boxes because their boxes aren’t very nice. But my box contains ideas that will take me out of this world.
Written by Roger Bothwell on July 27, 2009
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
roger.bothwell.org