Tuesday, July 4, 2017

True Freedom

Freedom:

"And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free."

"If therefore the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed."

"For you were called to freedom, brethren, only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' "

"Act as free men and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God. Honor all men, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king."

Freedom is not the right to do as I please. Freedom is the God-given responsibility to choose to do what is right in His eyes. Those who are genuinely free--the bondslaves of God--serve others not themselves. They live lives that are free from the chains of self-absorption, of thinking in terms of what is best for me, but focus instead on the needs of others.

How free are the majority of America's citizens? How free are you? How free am I?

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