No Longer Attached
When I was eleven years of age, my dad passed away. At that moment when my dad passed away, the covenant of marriage my mom had with my dad was over. My mom was no longer attached to the covenant she had been in with him because he had died.
There is a Biblical explanation of this kind in Scripture regarding the New Covenant.
Romans 7:1 Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
Spiritually speaking, there was a time when the law of Moses was the husband of those wishing to pursue God. But now, those wishing to belong to and to pursue God can only do so by being dead to the law and alive unto God through Jesus Christ. It is akin to having the old husband die and being married to a new husband.
2 Corinthians 11:2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
In this New Covenant, everything we need, everything we are, and everything we should enter into flows through Christ. He has given the Holy Spirit to us to ensure we are protected, directed, and transformed by His life-giving power at work within us.
Now we serve in the newness of the Spirit, not in the oldness of the letter.
It might be that the most arrogant statement anyone could ever make or think is, "Just tell me what you want and I will do it." When addressing the remnant of Judah and referring back to when they were brought out of Egypt with all of Israel, the prophet Jeremiah said the following,
Jeremiah 42:20 For you were hypocrites in your hearts when you sent me to the LORD your God, saying, “Pray for us to the LORD our God, and according to all that the LORD your God says, so declare to us and we will do it.’
Wanting a list of dos and don'ts with an attitude that one could keep it faithfully and entirely is arrogance. God desires that we walk in a relationship with Him, guided by the leading of His Holy Spirit.
Relationship is what Jesus died to bring to us. He did not die so that the law would be reinforced and renewed as our guide. He died to set us free from that former husband so that we might be joined to Him. We are no longer attached to the law; we are now in a relationship with Jesus under the New Covenant.
