Congratulations. Your gift of a new day is here. Ready to live it big. You're listening to the Big Life Devotional podcast. Now, here's Pamela to get you fired up for all God has available for you today. Well, good morning, beautiful. Welcome to a brand new day of life. Happy Tuesday, my friends.

I'm super excited to get to be part of your day.

Thank you for inviting me into your morning.

Let's get the day started right.

The title of today's episode of the Big Life Devotional podcast is,

You are free. Without the power of God's Holy Spirit in our lives,

we are constantly doing the things we know we shouldn't do and living in this perpetual cycle

of screw up and beat up. We screw up, so we beat ourselves up and then we

screw up again. The power of our flesh is strong. We want what we want and the flesh will not

stop nagging at you until you give it what it wants. And this is how we become slaves to our own ways.

We're not free to make better decisions.

Our old ways drag us back to old prisons where we're chained doing the things we said

we never wanted to do again.

But here we are doing them. Stuck, miserable,

ashamed. You've been there before. But Paul writes in Galatians 5 verse 1, Christ has truly set us free. And then he says, now, make sure that you stay free and don't get tied up again in

slavery to the law. Now, I used to think that being a Christian meant I had to follow more rules and give up more freedoms.

I thought it meant I couldn't have fun and I would be continually measured and judged.

But my friends, it's quite the opposite.

Following Christ actually sets us free. We are free from the bondage of sin. We don't have to

stay stuck doing what we used to do. We are also free from the slavery to the law. That's what

Paul writes about here in Galatians. This law he's referring to is the 613 commands in the old

covenant. Under the old law, you break one and you are too far gone. There was no amount of

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