Hoping you’re having a wonderful, blessed celebration of the many freedoms we’ve been blessed with. Renee and I are enjoying, right along with you, a day long fest of friendship, crazy fun and lots of all the wrong kinds of food.
But we’re also committing to thinking through the value of freedom, and the many forms it comes in. We’re still protected by a brilliantly crafted Constitution and Bill of Rights. We can speak freely, enjoy free enterprise, worship openly, assemble, protect ourselves, and carve our own paths out in ways unimaginable to other nations. And while no one needs to remind me how threatened those freedoms are these days, they still exist, and if they are eventually yanked away it will only be, IMHO, because we allowed it.
But there are, thank God, other freedoms in Christ we enjoy that could never be yanked away, such as:
-Freedom from the curse and the condemnation of the judgment waiting for anyone unable to keep God’s perfect and holy law, meaning, of course, everyone.
“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law.”(Galatians 3:13)
-Freedom from the power of sin
“For sin shall not have dominion over you.” (Romans 6:14)
-Freedom from condemnation
“There is now therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 8:1)
-Freedom from legalism and efforts to make ourselves righteous
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again the yoke of bondage.” (Galatians 5:1)
-Freedom from the fear of man
“So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. (Hebrews 13:6)
-Freedom that is genuine, complete and everlasting!
“If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” (John 8:36)
As an American I am more grateful than ever for freedoms better men than I have fought and bled for, and I’m likewise more fearful than ever when I consider what could be our future, and how easily those very freedoms we celebrate can be lost if not well guarded.
But there’s no vote, decision, or statute that can touch our freedoms in Christ, and for that I especially am rejoicing today. Hope you are too.
So Happy Fourth of July. God bless and keep America. And God bless you.
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