We have escaped!

We are like a bird escaped from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!

Psalm 124:7 AMP

Have you ever thought about what you escaped from when you made the decision to receive Jesus as your Lord and Saviour? For me, one of things I escaped from was the need to solve everything myself. Occasionally I do still battle with that, but the occurrences are less and less as God continues to daily teach me about trusting Him fully with every area of my life. What a beautiful freedom salvation gives us, we who are chosen. 

Who were chosen and foreknown by God the Father and consecrated (sanctified, made holy) by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ (the Messiah) and to be sprinkled with [His] blood: May grace (spiritual blessing) and peace be given you in increasing abundance [that spiritual peace to be realised in and through Christ,freedom from fears, agitating passions, and moral conflicts].

1 Peter 1:2 AMP

Freedom from fears, agitating passions, and moral conflicts. A freedom to live in this world, but not be of this world. A freedom to have hope in someone other than ourselves. Someone who is worthy of that hope. Jesus.

Praised (honored, blessed) be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah)! By His boundless mercy we have been born again to an ever-living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

[Born anew] into an inheritance which is beyond the reach of change and decay [imperishable], unsullied and unfading, reserved in heaven for you,

Who are being guarded (garrisoned) by God’s power through [your] faith [till you fully inherit that finall] salvation that is ready to be revealed [for you] in the last time.

1 Peter 1:3-5 AMP

Question for today, what in your life has Jesus helped you escape from? Let's take some time to remind ourselves of what Jesus has done for us, and give thanks.

As you have therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the Lord, [so] walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him.

Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in Him, fixed and founded in Him], being continually built up in Him, becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving.

Colossians 2:6-7 AMP