A River of Salvation

In the Epistle to the Galatians, Paul, with his saving ingenuity, pairs freedom with the service of love (5:13). Talking about freedom can, in no way, be established on the ruins of this pairing. You know the verse in Galatians. Nevertheless, I will remind you of it: “do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another”. Freedom does not justify our making mistakes or our establishing our own souls on hatred and grudges. The worst thing that is done by the world we live in is that it, mostly, separates freedom from love. These apostolic words compel us to say that Man’s highest calling is to believe that love is a boundary to freedom that cannot be overstepped. There is an image of the relationship between freedom and love that I read about from one of the commentators, an image of a river whose boundary helps it reach its goal. The boundary, which is love, allows the river of freedom to flow confidently to its estuary. This is a helpful request that we should grow in obedience to the Apostle. This is a river for our salvation.