FREEDOM

For human beings, freedom means living in the will of God. Only God, because he is absolutely self-subsistent, has absolute freedom. Absolute freedom means that you live out your own will without any deference to the will of another. This is God’s prerogative and one long coveted by the sinful heart of man. Human beings are created to live out the will of God. This is freedom for human beings. It is a relative freedom, but it is freedom nevertheless because it is how we were made to live. We are like a train which can only function according to its potential when it runs along the tracks. We have tracks to live on, and if we try to digress from these we will end up bogged in a field. Many people boast of living free lives in which they just follow their own desires. But in fact they are like trains ploughing through a field which eventually will get bogged and rust. Don’t envy the seemingly unrestrained life. For freedom means being what you were made to be and you were made to live in the will of God. The will of God is a straight set of tracks along which you can discover all the exhilaration and joy of life. Set the wheels of your heart and mind tightly into these tracks and learn what it means to live in freedom.

Pray the words of this psalm.

Read Romans 6:15-23 and Psalm 119:29-32