Galations 5:13-15 For you have been called to live in
freedom—not freedom to satisfy your sinful nature, but freedom to serve one
another in love. For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love
your neighbor as yourself.” But if instead of showing love among yourselves you
are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying
one another. (NLT)
Paul’s letters to the Galatians was about receiving God’s
blessing by fully accepting Jesus for their salvation. Paul told them
that in Christ we are all free—free to live under God’s grace. And in that
freedom we have one responsibility: Love one another. As partners, family
members, friends of someone struggling with addiction or poor behavioral
choices, it can be hard to remember to love one another as ourself. Just as the
Galatians struggled with how to accept non-Jewish converts into the fold, friends
of survivors may struggle with how to accept those in recovery—how to trust
them again, how to love them without being hurt, and how to believe that God is
changing them. Change is hard for everyone involved in this healing process.
But if we can remember to start by accepting God’s love for us, then maybe we
can just love those in the process of transformation until we can trust and
believe again.
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