Freedom

This week we took time as a nation to celebrate our country’s independence that was won through countless debates and on numerous battlefields. Our freedom was incredibly expensive and now centuries later we often take our freedom for granted. And while I never want to under appreciate the freedom I have as a citizen of the USA, I also don’t want put my trust in my freedoms granted by my citizenship.

There is a much more important freedom that I have been granted and one that is much more important to my life. It’s an independence that was won thousands of years ago through incredible pain and suffering, a freedom that was won through a cross and an empty tomb. It is the freedom of the power and control of sin in my life. It is the freedom of victory over spiritual death. My need for spiritual freedom is much greater than my need for political freedom. My freedom from the power and consequence of sin is much more important to my life than the freedom that I have in the United States.

I’m truly thankful for the independence and the freedoms I have been granted living in the USA, but it doesn’t come close to the thankfulness I have been granted by a living savior who has empowered me to live a life devoted to God no matter where I live!

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