day no. 17,513: form and freedom

"Form and freedom must go together for the sake of ordered liberty, and form and freedom only go together in Christ." — Douglas Wilson, Unholy Wars: Slavery, Jews, and Your Mouth

This reminds me of Chesterton's observation that "the chief aim of order is to give room for good things to run wild.” which then reminds me of what our Lord said in John 10:9, "I am the door: by Me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." 

So, any way you shake it, it comes down to: form and freedom, order and emancipation, or one door and infinite pasture.

1 Corinthians 14:33

For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace.

The law of liberty is peace. 

Law without liberty is legalism and liberty without law is licentiousness.