Head-dibs

When a man is released from prison, he is not free to do anything he feels like doing, but he is free to obey the Law. In the same way when we are freed from sin, when trusting in Christ, we are not given a license to sin, but are free to obey Him.

The joy in excercising my liberty of loving my brother is infinitely superior to the joy in excercising my liberty of hurting him.

“Let us be watchful in the use of our liberty, and labor to be inoffensive in our behavior, that our example compel them not. There is a commanding force in an example, as there was in Peter (Gal. 2). Looseness of life is cruelty to ourselves and to the souls of others. Though we cannot keep those who will perish from perishing, yet if we do that which is apt of itself to destroy the souls of others their ruin in imputable to us.” Richard Sibbes, “The Smoking Flax.”