Enjoying your “Freedom” weekend? It’s great to be able to walk, drive, or fly wherever we’d like to. It’s also great to have the freedom to choose our jobs and neighborhoods. Granted, not every neighborhood welcomes everyone…but freedom is still a luxury we enjoy.
I recently watched a video clip of people complaining about everything that’s wrong with America, yet all refused a one-way-can’t return ticket to communist, red-zoned, or dictatorship countries! That’s because after all the fussing, the US is still one of the best places on earth to live at.
So, we can travel anywhere we want and we can choose how to live, but no matter how much freedom we have, certain things we just can’t have, nor can we rid ourselves of.
Freedom won’t rid us of jealousy, anger, hatred, or envy. Living free will not change discrimination or biasness in us. Are you having a hard time accepting others, or loving people who look different from you? Whether we’re all alone on an entire island what beats in our hearts, can’t be set free or bound by freedom. Jesus knows that. He knew that before the beginning of time.
Only He can set us free from those things that chain and bind us internally. Only he can declare wholeness upon our lives eternally. So, if you desire to become a hermit and live in a hut, or if you’ve been sentenced to life behind bars, with Jesus in your heart, you will be free within. The bars without won’t bind you. Nothing can stop the joy within. Nothing can undo the changes wrought in you. It was exactly for freedom that Jesus died for us! It was to make us free from sin within and sin without.
So, where would you like to live? I’d say, “In Jesus’ house, and in God’s presence where there is fullness of joy” (Psalm 16:11).
Happy Fourth of July Week!
Sam