Are you free?
Dr. Charles Stanley wrote about The Gift of Freedom. He starts his article by asking the reader, "Are you a free person?" Most of us would answer yes to that question because we are free to go almost anywhere we want to or do what we want to do or even say what we want to say.
We need to remember that many thousands of men and women in uniform have died while serving in the military in order to protect our freedom.
The article goes on to explain that many people think of having liberty because nobody will question their actions or activities. Dr. Stanley says that the truth of the matter is that these same people who think they have liberty are enslaved by different kinds of bondage, such as stress, bitterness, anger, anxiety, depression, etc. Dr. Stanley states that even though a country may experience liberty through a war won on a battlefield, that country will not be free until its citizens are free. “And no person is free unless he or she is free on the inside.” In John 8:36 Jesus says, “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” Then we might think we are free because our country enjoys freedom, but are we really free on the inside?
Freedom is by no means free. Somebody has to die for that freedom. Just like many of our men and women in uniform have died to keep our country free, according to the Bible, Jesus died to provide freedom from sin to mankind.
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