Made to Be FREE

I opened one of my favorite magazines, Magnolia Journal, with the cover title, “You were made to be FREE.” Joanna Gaines writes, “there’s a good chance you’ve already learned that true freedom isn’t something instantly granted to us on the last day of school. And that’s fine by me because the kind of freedom I’m interested in doesn’t expire as fall nears.”

Freedom with no expiration date. Isn’t what we all want?

As you prepare to celebrate July 4th and the freedoms we enjoy as a nation, paid for by the lives of heroic men and women, take a moment to look within. Are you living in the freedom your Creator intended for you?  

Joanna concludes, “Transformational freedom is a worthwhile pursuit. It makes a way for us to see our lives as they were meant to be lived. Freedom makes a way for us to live our lives as they were meant to be lived…this kind of living is most often forged in a daily choosing, in one courageous yes ( or perhaps, no) after another.”

James encourages us in the Bible to speak with confidence, “Let your ‘Yes’ be yes, and your ‘No,’no.”  You don’t always have to explain. Nor are excuses necessary.  What courageous “Yes” or “No” do you need to choose today to experience freedom?