Freed Up for Something Better

Finding freedom is easy. We live in it. Unless you've lived without it somewhere, you don't even know you have it most of the time. We have freedom here in this country that we so often take for granted. We have freedom to eat what we want, dress the way we want, go where we want to go, and so on and so on.

I had a friend, who was a Romanian preacher (underground at the time), tell me once that, as American's, our biggest hangup or handicap is just that, our freedom. We don't sometimes even realize what it means.  

Thank God we are free in Christ. With Him as our mediator and direct link to the Father, we can have ultimate freedom in Jesus. The problem is that this too, can be clouded by familiarity and comfort. If we are not careful, as followers of Christ, we can become so "used to" the Christian way of life that we become stifled even by the eternal life giving freedom that if affords. Tragic.  

Freedom is best recognized and visible when it is exercised. Yes you can have freedom in Christ. Use it to love someone. Yes you can have freedom from the wages of sin. Use it to forgive. Yes you can have freedom from the opinions of this world. Use it to be the true creation that you are. You.  

Find freedom in being you. That's where God loved you first and He never stopped.

Psalm 139:13-14

For you created my inmost being; 
       you knit me together in my mother's womb.

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; 
       your works are wonderful, 
       I know that full well.