Daily Word Wednesday 14^th November 2007

What Is True Freedom?

So, since we're out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we're free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind? Hardly. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it's your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives you've let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you've started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!

Romans 6:15-16

Sin enslaves! Oh it may manifest itself as free speech, free thinking and free living but just take a hard look at the world around you, and at what these so called freedoms have bought us.

How many lives have been hurt by the idea, that free speech gives us the right to use words to hurt and destroy people. And how often has so called ‘free thinking’ led people into acts of violence, pornography, pedophilia, rape etc. And the ‘benefits’ of ‘free living’? Addictions, suicides, venereal diseases, aids etc. etc. And we call all of this ‘freedom’.

When God sets us free, we are free to hope and love and live; never alone, never abandoned and never without a divine destiny but remember, the choice is ours!!!!

Stay fervently focused

Much love

Chrissy