John Fischer The Catch

What’s is it like living without a veil? It’s freeing … liberating. You don’t have to be something you’re not. You don’t have to make up anything. You don’t have to impress. You don’t have to follow the rules. (There are no rules.) You don’t have to hide anything, because you don’t have anything to hide. You don’t have to worry about your reputation. You are free to be who you are, because who you are is loved and accepted completely, unconditionally, and God is fully in charge of who you are becoming.

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But whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 2 Corinthians 3:16

A song for when you turn to the Lord:

I used to think that I was right

A lonely candle in the night

And while the heart of the world was breaking

I could not feel the aching

The mantle had passed down to me

This thing was my destiny

But while the world was out there dying

I was in here lying to myself

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But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. 2 Corinthians 3:14-15

This is where religion comes from. This is all about working your way to heaven or Nirvana or what have you. Think of the old covenant not as just the law of Moses, but as a principle of life. The idea that there is a standard, and our job is to follow that standard, and blessing will come to the degree that we are able to succeed at this is the idea behind the old covenant. At this point it can be any law or any standard. It can be a set of expectations at a particular church or denomination. And so you can have old covenant Christians.

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