New Free

“I gave up what I can’t keep for something I can never lose.”

A Voice in the Wind, Francine Rivers

Independence celebrates freedom from outside control. How blessed we are not to be subject to an oppressive rule and reign over our country that limits our ability to have freedom to choose. Yet are we not still subject to much enslavement?! We don’t have to wear physical chains around our hands or feet but our hearts do. It comes in many different ways less obvious to those arounds us. Things like work, television, approval, fear, pride, insecurities, success, fame, fortune, relationships, drinking, pleasure and on and on. These things hold us captive so that we are dependent on them, we need them, we can’t live without them and we are not free from their outside control. As we celebrate independence let us begin to live a new free...Free from ALL that controls you and Free to really Live!

“And this world is fading away, along with everything it craves. But if you do the will of God, you will live forever.”

1 John 2:17 NLT

Christ came that you might be FREE, a new free. Not just free to do as you choose but free from all that keeps you enslaved. Free from all this world has to offer and free from fear. For none of what this world has to offer can you keep. It doesn’t last past this life. But His Free is really Free, forever free. So what is it? What is it that has you by the chains? Invite Jesus in to save you from it’s power for that is why He came. He came to free you. A new freedom that will cost you everything if you miss it!!