Freedom & LifeSample

Individualism is not freedom; it is bondage to self. Individualism is a self-imposed prison. If my capacity to experience anything like peace was limited to my own expression, my own understanding, or my own interpretation of life and what it meant to be free, I would be lost. I cannot free me from me; therefore, I am not free.

But grace. Grace is the key that opens the door to all that God has for us; chief among them is freedom. God calls you to himself and commands you to follow him so that, by grace, he may free you from you. God calls you to himself and commands you to follow him so that, by grace, he may set you free from your sinful nature.  

God is not robbing you of liberty but is leading you to the only place where freedom can be found. We assume there is liberty in our individualism, but God has not created us to be separate from him. Adam and Eve were with him in the garden. Sin separated them and removed them from his presence. Jesus bridges that gap and brings us back into right standing.

Living for ourselves—that is, working to rule our little worlds independently—can never work. Life is only ever found when we put ourselves in the hands of our Creator and cast ourselves on his amazing grace.

Are you truly free? What is it you need to be set free from today? Anxiety? Anger? Addiction? Jesus brings you freedom from your base nature. Freedom from your old wants. Freedom from your broken heart and your wounded self. If the Son sets you free, you are truly free. So, walk in it. Leave the baggage of your old self behind and run in the new you that you are becoming through grace.

Declare Today - "Looking ahead (and not behind me), I will walk in grace to experience true freedom."

Written by Josh Blackmun