You have been set free
Galatians 5:1
So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law.
There are many things that have kept us in bondage. Religion, a belief that we need to work to receive salvation. Fear, of the future, of the past, or God (in an unhealthy way) with it are the other names of fear, anxiety, worry, intimidation and many others. Sin, in general the things we believe we are bond by because of our families, history, what doctors have said and so on.
We are sometimes in bondage to the things others have said, hurtful, limiting things that are not blessings from God. Jesus has said we are set free.
So if Paul wrote that Christ set us free why don't you feel free. We must acknowledge our need to be free and that Jesus can set us free. Paul is challenging the church not only are we free because of Christ but we must chose to remain free by being aware of the things that can put us in bondage and refuse to go there.
Your past does not own you. Your past is gone in God's eyes and your future is exciting new and filled with life and life abundantly. He wants to bless you beyond anything you can hope or imagine so don't go back into the bondage of the law, fear or anything else that is not God.
