The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
has set you free from the law of sin and of death….
God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do….
The just requirement of the law is fulfilled in us,
who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
—from Romans 8.2-4
God’s law is not a set of demands.
Demands could never make us love.
Concern about our righteousness
only makes us more self-centered.
God’s law is love, which lives in us,
and so makes us the fulfillment of God’s love.
We are free from “having to” do anything
to be fully, deeply loved and connected.
So we walk in that Love, that Spirit.
We let go of our anxieties
about the survival of our isolated self,
and let ourselves be included
in the infinite Life of God.
We rest in God’s love.
We let it transform us breath by breath.
We behold that love for and in everyone.
We let that love guide us.
We live in the Spirit.