Meet Kayla Poole

I am 100 percent single, and it’s great! I have the freedom and ability to do things that I know might not be possible if I were married. If you can be single, do it at least for a little while. (I know. The struggle is real.)

I am also 100 percent married, and this isn't my first marriage—at least not in an earthly sense. Confused? Well, it only gets more confusing. I had children with my former spouse. Their names were Pride, Selfishness, and Control. But when I trusted that Christ’s death on the cross was payment for the former life I lived with my former spouse, the Law, the person I was died and was no longer married to the Law according to Romans 7:4. The sin the Law made me aware of shamed and condemned me when I did not measure up. But my new life married to Christ through faith freed me from the guilt and bondage I was under in my relationship with the Law. Paul describes it this way in Galatians 2:20: “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”

I now have two family trees. One tree shows me married to the Law and, as Romans 7:5 points out, “our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.” The other tree shows my new marriage to Christ, where my new purpose is to “bear fruit for God.” Galatians 5:22-23 gives a glimpse of our new lineage: Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. While I might be reminded of what the Law revealed to me now and again through pictures or memories, you and I have a new lineage in the second family tree if we have trusted in Christ. While we had a heritage and lineage under marriage with the Law, through faith in Christ we are given a new heritage AND lineage! We are forever with Christ!