Remember the cost
There’s always a cost in being set free. Those forgetting this soon fail to appreciate what they have been given. A slave released from years of bondage wouldn’t need to be informed that it was for his freedom that he’d been freed. He’d never go back to that bondage.
When God left His throne, He came to set you free. Seeing you in prison, powerless and in bondage to your sins, He left heaven to purchase your release with His own blood. Amazingly, God must remind us that we have been set free to be free, and warns that if we go back, Christ will be of no value to us at all.
Be very careful to remember the cost of your freedom. You may drift back into slavery by subtly seeking approval from God for your good works, forgetting that it is His work alone on the cross that justifies you. (1 Peter 3:17-18) Or slip into longing for the old world and it’s lusts, forgetting the yoke of bondage you were in.
Remember when you first believed and how precious He was to you at the beginning. Never forget it was for freedom that He set you free.
