Today is a day filled with celebration--celebrating our independance and freedom. Everyone celebrates July 4th but sometimes I think people forget about the significance of this day. The founding fathers of our country were men who founded this country on God's authority. As a nation we have drifted so far from recognizing God's authority. Thousands of men (and women) have fought for our freedom. We often forget the sacrifices made for freedom. True freedom does not come without sacrifice.
Galatians 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Through Christ's death on the cross we were freed from sin and restored in our relationship with God. Living in a free country we do not give much thought to slavery.
I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:19-23
As we have been freed from sin through the blood of Jesus Christ and choose to walk in righteousness we become more like Christ.
May you not take your freedom in this country or in Christ for granted.
