The Fourth of July in the United States celebrated a form of freedom for which I and every other American should be grateful. Truly. Our social freedom is a profound, stunning gift, and nothing less.
But it’s a dim view of ultimate freedom if we leave freedom to be defined in the realm of rights and options and freedom of speech and personal agency.
They all matter, they truly do.
But there is a transcendent freedom to which all other forms of freedom ultimately bow, and even find in it their root and source.
Freedom from the soul-decaying sickness of sin—that’s the freedom that really gets the job done. People in bondage and under the worst, most brutal and hell-bent governments that have ever existed, have tasted freedom of the heart while suffering.
For that freedom, I’m in. And for that freedom for others, I’m in again.
I’ve watched sin kill—both quickly and slowly. Let’s not do that, shall we? Let’s not stay chained to anything for even a moment longer.
Savor the freedom you have in Christ, and I encourage you to be thankful to live in a country with the kinds of freedoms we enjoy. Sacrifice purchased them. Thank a veteran if you see one.
But if someone asks me to spell “freedom,” I will spell it just one, ultimate way.
I spell freedom J-e-s-u-s.
I really do.
Today, in Christ, be free to become whole instead of divided, healed instead of sick, full instead of empty. Be free in heart and mind, and enjoy being free in body because of a good government and good systems.
It is for freedom that Christ comes to you, to me, today. He is in you, and His freedom is in you. Lord, take us to a wide open space today, where we can be free.
This article on true freedom originally appeared here, and is used by permission.
