“…as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.” 1Pt2.16 NKJV
Freedom is sacred to those of us who live in the west and not only because we have it, but because its value has us. The idea of freedom has gripped our very soul. From early childhood we teach it as our patriotic duty, "Let freedom ring!"
But freedom for freedoms sake is like all things and one brother describes it well, “All things are good when they look to God and bad when they turn from Him.“ Even something as precious as freedom is perverted into a dreadful thing when we use it in a manner not intended by our Creator. The abuses of freedom are many and terrible in consequence. So why does God give us freedom? The same brother writes, “though it [freedom] makes evil possible, [it] is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other… And for that they must be free.” (C. S. Lewis)
True freedom is not the right to do as we please but the power love God as we ought. 11/13/07 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
