freedom
My world has been swirling around me lately. I’ve been encountering questions and thoughts, and realizations have been coming at me like an Amtrak engine. I’ve had the opportunities to hear stories, stories that send chills down my spine just to think of them. But in a good way. The chills are from grasping a fuller understanding at the greatness of God, from acknowledging that He is more vast, more powerful, and more in control than I can ever comprehend. It gives me an overwhelming sense of peace and joy, to an extent I’ve never felt before.
I have reached a place where I want to sing to the mountains that Christ is my King, my Savior, and that the freedom He gives me can be matched by no one and nothing on this earth. It’s a freedom that gives me a sense of clarity about everything around me; a sense of true discernment and an ultimate desire to love anyone I encounter, because they are a child of God. I know that my worldly ambitions and nature will at times distract me from this freedom, but that is what’s so perfect about freedom in Christ – it is forgiving, even for someone as unworthy as me.
The fact that we have the freedom in this country to post about issues like this also overwhelms me. I thank God that I’ve been placed in the United States, where I can worship publicly, and there are no governmental repercussions for it. Having been to countries where you work because you’ve been told to, you practice a religion because it is the state religion, and you are forced to give everything you make to the government, it makes me very frustrated to hear people complaining about our freedom, and encouraging our government to take away the freedom of the individual citizen and business. I’ve seen what this does to a nation, to a people. I’ve felt the bondage and seen the oppression, and I would never wish that on my country.
How blessed I am to have so much freedom in my life, and while the freedom of our country and rights may be at stake, I’m grateful to know that my freedom in Christ is eternal.
