Freedom in Discipline

For the last few weeks I have been trying to figure out how to write this post and to be honest, I still don't know. I'm not sure how to articulate what I've learned. I can see it in my life; I've gone from being in bondage to rules and expectations to being free in them. When I have tried to explain it, others have said they understand, but that must be the grace of God because I don't feel like I can accurately explain what God has taught me in this matter. What I do know is that it has to do with my heart and my mindset. When my focus is the rules, legalism results. When my focus who God is and who I am in Christ by His grace, some of those same rules that felt so much like a prison before, I now find freeing. In teaching me His grace, God has taught me freedom in discipline.