He Gives Us Eternal Life

 By faith in Christ, we are no longer enslaved to sin. No longer are we bound by legalistic rules where we are required to eat certain foods and participate in specific feasts, festivals, and Sabbath day rituals ; all of which were given by God to point us to Christ. All these things were a mere shadow of things to come. All of them pointed to the One Who was to come. The reality and meaning behind them all is Christ Who is the substance of the shadow. Jesus is the solid fact of that which was foreshadowed.
 All these things were a dim shadow of glorious things to come. Now as believers, the substance of what these shadowy things represented, has been discovered in Christ, and we have become a member of His Body and are identified with Him. We are identified with His death so that His death became our death, and our sin is forgiven. His Resurrection became our resurrection and His righteousness became our righteousness and He Gives Us Eternal Life.
 May we live in the reality of who we are in Christ and rejoice in the freedom that He has brought. May we not seek to return to the shadow of a former dispensation, but live our lives as ministers of reconciliation under the New Covenant of grace, cut at Calvary and fulfilled by Christ.
These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, thank You that Christ is the substance and reality of our faith and that in Him, we have been freed from sin. Thank You that we have been released from the bondage of legalistic rules and regulations, which were a mere shadow of things to come. Thank You for the wonderful way that you designed the Law and the many rites, rituals, feasts, and assignments, to be shadows of things to come, in order to point us to Christ Who is the hope of our calling, and in Whose name we Pray, AMEN.