God's gift of Freedom

Freedom is a gift from God. And that gift was given to us long before 233 years ago. Not only was given to us way before the birth of our nation, It was given to everyone, not just us living here in the United States. What some people don't realize is that, within Freedom there are rules and laws. Because of the fact we are pretty much sinful and selfish by nature, these rules are designed to protect each individual from freedom unchecked. Unchecked freedom can create chaos. Freedom is dangerous in the hands of those who don’t know how to use it. That’s why criminals are confined in prisons with barbed wire, steel bars, and concrete barriers. Or consider a campfire that is allowed to spread in a dry forest. It quickly becomes a blazing inferno. In Freedom, their are Boundaries. It was because of this lawless and selfish nature, our founding fathers left their homes and traveled to this land to test out their experiment called Democracy. Setting up laws to protect us, basically, from ourselves and the selfish nature within us.

We, In the U.S., took this gift of freedom and started out great, we built this great country with an attitude of helping our fellow man, achieving a common goal and set up for ourselves rules to protect the rights of others and allow us the freedom to thrive and succeed, according to our desires for ourselves and our families, as long as we didn't infringe on the same rights of others. But here is where we often fail. We use freedom’s luxury to live selfishly, or we claim ownership of what God has merely entrusted to us. Because of our selfish nature, greed and power corrupted us and we stared to ignore the rights of others and only cared about serving ourselves. Now, because of our misuse of freedom, we have placed more rules, more laws and more systems of check & balances on our backs. All in the name of Freedom. Unfortunately, some have placed more restriction on our lives, not for the good of their fellow man but, for the good of themselves. Now it seems we are slaves to the laws, rules and regulations that were designed to protect us.

" It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. " Galatians 5:1.


You see, Freedom doesn't come from laws that rule over us, Freedom comes from us ruling over our hearts. When we rely on the God's Spirit and expend our energies on loving God and helping others, the destructive works of the flesh will be restrained by God

" Do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. " Galatians 5:13

Freedom doesn’t give us the right to do what we please, but to do what pleases God.


Happy Independence Day