Therefore, love is the only behavior that we can do in freedom. When God frees us from guilt and fear and greed and fills us with his all-satisfying presence, the only motive left is the joy of sharing our fullness. When God fills the emptiness of our heart with forgiveness and help and guidance and hope, he frees us from the bondage to accumulate things and manipulate people. People who devote large hunks of their life to surrounding themselves with the comforts of this world testify that God has not filled the void of their heart to overflowing. When God is our portion and we are truly free then we will serve one another through love.
Freedom flows forth in love just as surely as a bubbling spring flows forth in a mountain stream.
The book of Galatians is written to show us how to become a mountain spring that serves the valley with the water of love. There is no more fulfilling way to live than to draw daily on God's all-satisfying grace and let it flow through us to meet the needs of others. Verses 14 and 15 give us a positive and a negative incentive to live like this. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The good news is that love, which is an overflow of God's grace, is what fulfills the law.