Do we understand Freedom ?

“For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.””

Romans 8: 15 (New King James Version)

I was listening to a classmate of my sister complain how she does not have the freedom she wants. Freedom to go around with any guy she chooses without being spotted by her parents or relatives , freedom to live life as she would like…

This is the cry of most people today. ‘Oh I want freedom to go and party ‘ , ‘Oh I want freedom to drink and smoke’ , ‘Oh I want freedom to have any kind of relationship I choose’ , ‘Oh I want freedom to read and watch any kind of book , TV program and site on the internet’. Take a couple of steps back and look at these choices … they are all yokes of sin ! They come in the deceptive name of so called ‘freedom’ but what it does is bind one to sin . People don’t realize that in all this they just get deeper and deeper into the bondages of sin. In fact they are spiraling away from freedom.

Jesus Christ gave us the greatest freedom of all . He conquered sin and death and He has set us free. We now walk in the freedom of being children of the most High. Every choice we make takes us closer to one of these ‘Eternal Death’ or ‘Eternal Life’ . We were bound by sin and lost to eternal death. But Christ came and He broke the yoke of sin over our lives and now we are free ! Free to choose eternal life and walk in the victory of Christ. For all our sins, Christ paid the price for us on the cross. Having been ransomed by His blood we are free.

Now there are a lot of us who take this freedom in Christ for granted. We forget we are joint heirs in Christ. We forget what it means when we now called God as our Father. Now as sons and daughters of the Most High we carry His banner wherever we are and whatever we do. Do our actions reflect who we are ? Do people see us as a follower of Christ by the testimonial lives that we live or do they figure that out just by our names ? Do we choose to read thrash , spend hours on the phone , spend hours at work and things of the world and have we forgotten that we have been called to stand in the gap and intercede for others in prayer ? Have we taken the true freedom that we have to read His Holy Word which is life for granted ? Have we decided the freedom to sleep as long as we like is more important than the freedom to grow in knowledge of His word and dwell in His presence ?

Galatians 5: 1 , “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”

God Bless