"All great things
are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice,
honour, duty, mercy, hope." – Sir Winston Churchill.
Freedom
Some songs stay
in your mind, deep in the recesses of hidden chambers. One such song is Kris
Kristofferson’s “Me and Bobby McGee.” A
school friend recorded the album for me on a cassette tape and I spent many
hours playing it over and over again.
When I hear anyone mention or use the word “freedom” almost immediately
I start listening to the song again in my mind. Especially the words, “Freedom's
just another word for nothin' left to lose, And nothin' ain't worth nothin' but
it's free.”
Freedom conjures
up a mixture of meanings and emotions. For most of us trapped in a world of
rules and regulations, laws and restraint, it is that feeling of living and
existing without any restriction or control.
The right that each of us feel we should have to act as we choose
without being confined or held down. Freedom
from any form of slavery brings release and fulfilment. In the words of Kris
Kristofferson, “Freedom just another word for nothing left to lose,” to be able
to be free to have nothing to lose, you have got to leave all that holds you
back behind, you might have nothing but at least you will have your freedom.
For those that
receive Christ and accept his provision of forgiveness, freedom is an amazing
reality, it is a relationship with a glorious God, and it is a breaking free of
all the bondage of the Old Covenant Law and the regulations that went with it.
God in Christ
paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We have been released from the
oppression of sin and we have been given a new holy nature, the old sinful
nature has been nailed to the cross and died with Christ. We have been raised
into a new, vibrant life with God the Father, Christ and the Holy Spirit living
inside and interwoven into us.
We are free
because we have died and Christ now lives and works through us.
We are loved by
God, and he wants us to be intoxicated, wooed, overwhelmed, drunk with his love
so that we spill out his love in every moment and to every person we met. The
Father is delighted with us and desires us to enjoy the wonders of his grace
and the revelation of all that was purchased for us at the cross.
We must never let
anything or anyone bring us back into bondage again.
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