Freedom. That was
the word that William Wallace in Braveheart screamed. That scene has stuck in my mind for years.
John
8:36 NLT
So
if the Son sets you free, you are truly free.
There are many ways that we can talk about and explain
freedom, and every one of them deal with a condition of the heart and
mind. So many people in bondage or that
need release live in a kind of prison not made of bars or concrete.
Often those are the structures of habits, of bad
relationships, of choices piled upon bad choices that have led to being held
down and held back from other things and from living life. This can be the description of the battle of
addiction and much more. It is a place
so many of us need freedom from.
God offers us freedom.
His way for us is life, abundant life and brings a sense of joy and of
enjoying the life He has given us. Some
people don’t enjoy their lives at all.
Some of us, yes including me, have found that some of the things of life
get very hard to care and almost impossible to deal with.
This Sunday The Community Fellowship will celebrate
“Recovery Sunday” with testimonies, special music, a message of freedom and
more. Please join us at 10:10am if you
can. We believe that recovery is
possible through the life giving truth of Christ.
We don’t have to remain in bondage or in addiction or in
the lives or in slavery or in the prison, self build or given by others, that
surrounds so many lives. In fact your
story may be one that needs to be told so that others can see that there is hope,
there is life to be lived.
God offers life, abundant life, to all of us. It is our choice to accept that freedom or
not to accept it.
2
Corinthians 3:17 NLT
For
the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Galatians
4:5 NLT
God
sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so
that he could adopt us as his very own children.
Galatians
5:1 NLT
So
Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get
tied up again in slavery to the law.
Choose freedom.
Choose Christ.
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