“I am free to run,” just as Elijah did in 1st Kings 18: 46.
“I am free to dance,” just as King David did in 2nd Samuel 6:14.
“I am free to live for you,” just as the disciples did throughout the book of Acts.
“I am free!” because Jesus made me free.
Freedom is something we sort of take for granted here in this country because we've always been free.
Now I'm sure some of you are probably saying: “Wait a minute! What about King George and the revolution? We weren't free back then.”
Well that's true, but we weren't a country back then either. We didn't become a country until after the revolution. We were just a part of England. It wasn't until after the revolution that we became a country.
So our country has always been free. Or at least that's what most people think.
But the reality is that we're all slaves. Slaves to sin.
Being a slave is horrible. Just ask Joseph. Not only was he sold into slavery. He was sold into slavery by his own brothers!
The Israelites were also forced into slavery, twice. Once by the Egyptians and once by the Babylonians.
We've even had slaves here in the U.S.! The country of the United States of America has always been free. But some of the people in America, specifically African Americans, were not always free.
But slavery to sin is the worst kind of slavery. If we die as slaves to sin then we will burn in the fires of hell! But Jesus died to free us from our slavery to sin.
All we have to do is repent of our sins and welcome Jesus into our hearts. And additionally if you give your life completely to God (this is not the same thing as repenting of your sins, repenting of your sins is telling God you believe in Him whereas giving your life to God is telling Him we want to “Live for Him”) you will receive true freedom in your life.
So I challenge you to give your life completely to Christ, because only then will you truly be able to say: “I AM FREE!”
This is really good! I only have one suggestion: in the second to last paragraph you have 'we wasn't to live for Him' I would suggest you change it to 'We want to live for Him'.
ReplyDeleteGood word! I might go a little more in depth with it though. Maybe expand a little more on how giving our lives to Christ actually does make us free. Potentially as opposed to, say, just making us merely "slaves" of Christ now instead of sin. That could bring an interesting point.
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