Archive for July, 2011
The Source of Freedom
¨…I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts. I will speak of your statutes before kings and will not be put to shame…” - Psalm 119:45-46 NIV
Only a people who live by God’s precepts can truly know freedom. It is only when we walk according to His ways and live as He designed us to live that we can know the true meaning of freedom. When we deviate from His word we become slaves to our own passions. When a society turns its back on His precepts then slavery follows. It is not usually sudden thing. It is rather a gradual decline in the freedom of the citizens as more and more laws are passed to reign in their lusts and desires. Self control gives way to government control. Government control grows steadily more intrusive. People give up freedom for the illusion of security and end up having neither.
Only when we are self governed, only when God’s supreme law rules our hearts, may we know true freedom. Only when we allow God’s Spirit to rule our own restless spirit may we overcome the destructive tendency to live for the deceitful pleasures of the flesh that really only lead us to destruction.
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Moral Uncertainty
There is a movement afoot in which folks declare “We can’t know anything for certain except that we should ‘love’ everyone.” The comments are well meant, after all, folks want to “do what Jesus would do”. The intention is to convince everyone to walk around “loving on everyone” and creating “one big happy family” out of human kind by ignoring any notion of right or wrong.
On the other hand, there are others who condemn anyone and everyone who disagree with them. They tend to have a legalistic outlook on life and see anyone who disagrees with their particular brand of theology as “obviously headed for hell in a hand-basket”. Their attitude seems to be “my way is better even that God’s way” and “Real love smacks people upside the head for not toeing MY line.”
Reading
Reading has been a part of my life as far back as I can remember. My earliest memories include that special time in the evening when my parents would put my sister and I to bed, tuck us in and then read stories from the “Little Brown Coco” series. Those simple stories put Biblical truths on a level that even a toddler could appreciate and we loved to hear about God and the people who love Him and do their best to walk in His ways. Later I went to school and learned to read on my own, opening boundless frontiers to an inquisitive mind. Read the rest of this entry »
