True Freedom

I often wondered what it meant to be truly free. I say this because I know I was born in a world where the concept is I, especially as a black woman, have been GIVEN freedom many generations ago when slavery ended. I got just one problem with this concept, it's FALSE. 


 In Genesis 2:16, God told Adam and Eve they were free to eat from the tree of life! They roamed the Garden of Eden naked. Now that's free! David asks God to KEEP him free from the trap (snare) set for him Psalm 31:4. Need more indication that we are a free people, all people?  David goes on to tell God that he FREED him from HIS chains in Psalm 116:16. 


You see we are free, we bind ourselves with chains, yoke ourselves to sin, some of us are born with the proclivity to be yoked  to certain things over others just because of our predecessors sins! Ever heard of generational curses? No? Ok, ever wonder why everyone in the family smokes, or abuses women, or drinks? You were presented with yokes coming out the womb, we all are. But we have a choice to choose otherwise, we have a choice to be free. David goes on to plead with God that he may set him free from his prison so that he can praise his name 142:7. So you see, you cannot be free while you are bound in sin and darkness. 


Being free is realized when you learn the truth about yourself. I don't mean you don't know your name, but even that was told to you. You only know what you are taught and shown, or experience, still with a disposition instilled in your own personal morals, values, character, make up, and heck even your genome. Who's truth are you being shown that you so gaily accept it as your own? Isaiah spoke the word of God to the captives "Come out', and to those in darkness, 'Be free" 49:9. You can not possibly be free living in sin and darkness! 


Jesus spoke to the disciples of a time that they would be free, and that time was when they knew the truth (John 8:32).  The disciples where confused saying “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?” 8:33 Jesus answered, So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed(John 8:36).


Our freedom comes from knowing the truth, not in sin and darkness. But through faith believing in Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection for our sake. Asking God that his spirit may dwell within you as a comforter, as your own spiritual advisor right on the inside of you. David was around before Christ came in the form of man and even he proves this same point to be valid in  Psalm 119:45 I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts. David studied the laws and precepts of God. He made God the head of his life. That's freedom. When you don't even have to drive the car and it still leads you to pursue his will while reaping the desires of your own heart (Psalm 37:4). 


Even when Jesus was manifested as son of man and took on our sins as his own so the we may have life, even he had to be freed. 
Acts 2:24 But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.  And you can see in Romans 8:2 that, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.


You may feel as Paul suspected the believers at the church of Corinth felt “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive.  1 Corinthians 10:23  Paul was warning them, there is a price that comes with our percieved human given freedom, it ain't free! You can use your Free Will to get you yoked up, shacked up, knocked up, rocked up, smoked up, drunk up, boo'd up,  wooed up, and any other kind of free up you think you may experience. But until you understand where true freedom comes from, any kind of up you think you have, is just a ticket downward. 


Sin promises but it doesn't pay, it disappoint, distracts, and destroy you. Maybe you wont see it now, and maybe that's because your "free" little mind is enemy operated. I urge you to pursue freedom, and drop the "devilish batteries" they die just like my energizers. But plug in to the life source, Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Spirit; \ which never loses power, that always gives freely wisdom knowledge peace joy understanding truth and most of all  FREEDOM!!!! 


2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.