One of the gifts that the gospel brings us is the gift of form in freedom and freedom in form. Apart from Christ, the world runs for slavish form, as if they were marching in a North Korean missile parade. Then, after they grow sick of the straight jacket, they lurch into a freedom that has about us much structure as one of the more gnarly Picasso’s.

The better part attempt to hold form and freedom together but even they end up toggling back and forth only able to hold on to one or the other at any given moment. Christ, and Christ alone, brings forth the new man. As He does, what takes shape is a free man and that liberated man is formed into the likeness of God. When you read the commands of God in Scripture, those places where He is breaking out the construction equipment, one thing to avoid is thinking that you have left the realm of grace and entered into the land of law. No, you’re a Christian. You stand in a world of grace. Grace is before you, behind you, beneath you, and above you. And your Father’s directives are there with you, they too having been sprinkled by the blood of the Lamb (Hebrews 9:19, 23).

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