Galatians 4:8-11

Formerly when you did not know God, you were enslaved to beings that by nature are not gods at all.  But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless basic forces? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?  You are observing religious days and months and seasons and years.  I fear for you that my work for you may have been in vain.

2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” As we see to confess the Lord Jesus with our lives, sometimes old habits die hard. Apart from the Lord, there is no force or power, no person or deity that is able to save you from the cost of sin. Everything we experience in life has the potential to become more important than the Lord Jesus Christ. If that happens, we are worshiping those idols as gods. The ongoing, daily question is: “Is Jesus enough?” The truth is that Jesus is always enough. The struggle is reflecting that truth through our lives daily. Jeremiah 24:7 says, “I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.”