For those reading from other countries, I beg your indulgence. Today is an American holiday, July 4th Independence Day. It’s the day we celebrate our country’s Declaration of Independence from England, a beginning of freedom.
John Quincy Adams, the 6th US President, once said, “Is it not in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? – That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? – That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?”
Since this grand start as a nation we’ve seemed to have lost our way. As a people, we’ve forgotten who and what our Founding Fathers stood upon – Jesus and His Word/teachings.
It was Jesus who said, “If you hold to My teachings, you are really My disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” True freedom only comes by listening to and following Jesus for yourself in community – not a Christian culture, not a government and its man-made laws, and certainly not any religion with its rules and regs.
Warren Wiersbe, a noted Jesus theologian, once said, “Freedom is not the absence of restraint, nor is freedom doing what you please. That’s chaos. That could be the greatest kind of selfish bondage. Freedom is the privilege and power to become all that God wants you to become. Freedom is the opportunity to fulfill your potential to the glory of God. And the more you become like the Lord Jesus Christ, the more it releases your potential.”
It is my prayer that you, my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, are using the biblical FREEdom process to show the world humanity’s true potential, which is only found in our Savior and Redeemer. My fellow countrymen and may be yours too are losing their way and could use a freedom path to follow.
Set “FREE” Nowww