Lectio divina on the Epistle to the Galatians by Monsignor Fausto Tardelli
"You were called to freedom " by those who have been called? We were called by Christ, who takes an action of freedom, that makes us free in giving of himself in order to rescue us from bondage. It 's the gift of himself working man's freedom, is a gesture of love.
Slavery seems to be the Jewish legalism. Because the requirements are seen as Jewish? St. Paul recognizes that we can get by observing the law of the flesh. Slavery is what makes the flesh, that the man who, in his limited reality of the creature, it stands as a savior. The meat is presumptuous pride that is in you think you are already free, already saved, in whom is certain to be better than others who do not observe the laws and in those who feel entitled to claim because it keeps the law. This mentality is slavery from which Christ has set us free. The requirements create divisions, prevent the relationship with others. E 'lack of love, rejection of Christ as Savior.
Freedom is service through love. Love is the true freedom of Christ. For Paul, freedom is not free will, but love, communion with Christ and with others.
works according to the flesh are contrary to love. The fruits of the Spirit are above the law.
We can therefore decide whether to live by the Spirit or the flesh. The road that leads to freedom, as evidenced again in the last sentence of this passage from the letter to the Galatians, is life in the Spirit: "If we live by the Spirit also walk by the Spirit "
Serena Capodicasa
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