be willing to let your life be displaced if knowing god better requires it.

...you would never intend this, but this is what happens. when you attempt to live by your own plans and projects, you're cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace. meanwhile we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit. for in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. what matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love.
you were running superbly! who cut in on you, deflecting you from the true course of obedience? this detour doesn't come from the one who called you into the race in the first place... and please don't toss this off as insignificant...
it's absolutely clear that gods called you to a free life. just make sure that you don't use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love. that's how freedom grows. for everything we know about God's word is summed up in a single sentence: love others as you love yourself. that's an act of true freedom... live freely, animated and motivated by gods spirit. then you wont feed the compulsions of selfishness. for there is a root of sinful self interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness....
.the message. galatians 5..