Romans 8:1-4

Romans 8:1-4
English Standard Version (ESV)

  I was reading a devotional by Tim Keller today about the first verse of chapter 8.  He pointed out that it's important to notice how it's phrased -- we don't escape condemnation.  It doesn't exist.  The possibility of condemnation is vanquished once we are in Christ.  We don't even need to worry about it -- there isn't some minuscule chance we'll end up in condemnation-land.  The threat is gone once we are in Christ, and so we are free.  God has done what we could not -- sending his own Son to liberate us from the threat of condemnation, we are free to walk in the Spirit.
  The question, then, is what your life looks like as being free in the Spirit.  How will you live?  Will you live a life of constant celebration and thanksgiving for having been set free?  Or will you let anxiety and fear bombard you with threats?  Will you dance with gratitude?  Or still let the devil's empty threats remind you of what once might have been, even though it no longer is.
  YOU ARE FREE IN CHRIST!!!  Nothing can take that away from you!!