Freedom & Holy Lawlessness

Galatians 5:1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
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22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
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It is an interesting thing to ponder that in the Garden of Eden, or in Heaven, we are perfectly free. The human will bridles at this notion, clinging to the false idea that one's liberty to sin is actually a kind of freedom. This is only true insomuch as one has the freedom to tie oneself up. But once I have bound myself, my freedom is gone. Sin is therefore like a freedom which forfeits itself, and is therefore imperfect. Perfect freedoms procreate in the same healthy fashion that we humans were also intended to be fruitful and multiply. The fruits of the Spirit, as they are called, are given so that they might be regiven ad infinitum, producing more and more freedom in the truest sense of the word. Against these fruits, unlike that first, damned proverbial apple, there is no law. The very first law was, don't eat that fruit or you will die. The fruits of the spirit, on the other hand, are life giving, and unencumbered by any restrictions. You might say that these fruits allow us to live in a state of holy lawlessness. For as Paul also says in the same book: "4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified [8] by the law; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love."

His love liberates us from the law which judges us. This is only possible, within the universal scales of justice, because Jesus fulfilled the law within himself. The mystery of that supernatural reality is, of course, much more vast than these overused words can communicate, but would serve as a proper launching pad for art.

May the fruits of the Spirit in your life give birth to true freedom and beautiful artistic expression which transcends all the mediums and laws of men.