So Much Mixture

We do not need better steps on how to live.

We need life, and that more abundantly.

This revelation has taken me a long time to accept.

I never realized how big God is, and that He has revealed Himself through His Son, who is committed to helping me in all times through all hardships.

For so long, none of this was happening.

Much of this was going nowhere.

So many of the promises in the Bible were not manifesting in my life.

I was trying to understand the truth, and yet I was getting all of these mixed messages.

Modernism: the combination of all heresies.

My father was involved with Scientology at one time.

My mother was full invested in Catholic teachings, followed by a rigid obsession with Alcoholics Anonymous.

No wonder so many people have a low opinion of God and faith.

No wonder people have a bad opinion (and rightfully so) of religion.

Religion means "to tie down again."

The reference speaks to animal sacrifices, but more general speaks to the rules and regulations which people end up in bondage to.

The rules were never meant for us to keep, but rather t keep the Israelites for a short time, so that when Jesus came, we could all be set free.

"3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: 4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." (Galatians 4: 3-5)

Then

"That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:" (Ephesians 1: 10)

There is no mixing this fullness with our emptiness, through any of our efforts:

"8Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. 9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? 10Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. 11I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain." (Ephesians 4: 8-10)

No rules, but one Ruler: Christ in you, the hope of glory (Colossians 1: 27)