A Free Life?

'Allo Blog Readers.

Well, tonight will be the last blog for almost a week, I am headed out of the province for a family vacation. I feel "poopy", this month is starting out poor for my blogging participation.

However, tonight I can blog, and that I will, but about what?

What consumes your life?

Examine your life, as I examine mine, what do you spend the majority of your time thinking about, or doing or wanting? Is that healthy? Is it a good given thought or passion?

Do you feel free?

Check it out...

Romans 6:15-21 ----

What Is True Freedom?

^15-18So, since we're out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we're free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind? Hardly. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it's your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives you've let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you've started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!

¹⁹I'm using this freedom language because it's easy to picture. You can readily recall, can't you, how at one time the more you did just what you felt like doing—not caring about others, not caring about God—the worse your life became and the less freedom you had? And how much different is it now as you live in God's freedom, your lives healed and expansive in holiness?

^20-21As long as you did what you felt like doing, ignoring God, you didn't have to bother with right thinking or right living, or right anything for that matter. But do you call that a free life? What did you get out of it? Nothing you're proud of now. Where did it get you? A dead end.

Think about a part in your life where you don't walk in freedom but continue to struggle with sin. When do you easily give into temptation? Why? What pain or discomfort does it bring? What do you fear you would lose if you gave up the sin?

Read the passage from Romans again with a specific sin in mind. Think Paul is accurate with his description of living, "any old way we want" to be accurate? What about living in "obedience"?

Pray to God about the things that He is showing you in your life that might be sin, or may not be real freedom. Get my drift? Maybe I am making no sense... If you're frustrated, express it to Him. I honestly think sometimes I forget that God likes to hear EVERYTHING from us. Not just us when we are happy or want something, He wants us to admit, when we hurt, or are sad, or confused, that is the beauty of it... You can say anything, and this Dad will listen. Challenge God to show you a freedom.

Live, off yourself to the ways of God and the freedom that never quits. Rest in His Freedom. Rest.