Freedom Day 351

Freedom who or what holds you in bondage?  Freedom the state of being free, exemption; immunity, or the right to frequent,enjoy or use at will; bondage slavery or involuntary servitude.  Hum, sounds like the hold alcohol addiction used to have on me.  But not any more! Five and a half years ago, I learned  to kick  alcohol addiction to the curb, so long, bye-bye!

As I have mention previous I came from a long line of addiction.  Generations to be exact, paternally and maternally, but God allowed and encouraged me to be born anew, leaving addiction in the dust.  During my time of sobriety, 4 family members and several friends have joined the ranks; oh my, maybe I started a contagious healthy bondage free cult. This is the meaning I like for cult, attracting a small group of devotees, yeps sound good to me!  The Alcohol-Free cult of Earleville, hum anyone interested?

But what does it really take to be freed, so often the sin in us and free-will impedes our success. You have to want to want it and then take steps to attain and maintain it!  Often easier said than done.  This scripture kinda sounds like double talk but it is so true; Romans 7:14-20  We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.  I do not understand what I do.  For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.  And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.  As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 

For years, I not only battled addiction I carried generational iniquities, sins of the father.   The truth will set you free, six words with gigantic purpose and meaning.  Psalms 119:33-37  Teach me, O LORD, to follow your decrees; then I will keep them to the end.  Give me understanding, and I will keep your law, and obey it with all my heart.  Direct me in the path the path of your commands, for there I find delight.  Turn my heart toward your statues and not toward selfish gain.  Turn my eyes away from worthless things, preserve my life according to your word. 

Of course God required work on my part too, James 1:22-25 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourself.  Do what it says.  Anyone who listens is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forget what he looks like.  But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it----he will be blessed in what he does.

How many people struggle in bondage or for that matter,sit in church weekly and just don`t get it! Just going through the motions, returning to their way of thinking and reacting to life, once they exit the building . Ezekiel 33:31-32  My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to listen to your words, but they do not put them into practice.  With their mouth they express devotion, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain.  Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love song with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear your word but do not put them into practice.

Have we became a broken society living in a sugar-coated watered down reality?  Believing only in ourselves; God must weep over our arrogance and stupidity.  United we stand, one nation under God, really??? 

1 Corinthians 2:9  However, as it is written:  "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him."

I pray Father God, that you will forgive us and have mercy on our county, and the world!

Ezekiel 22:30  "I looked for a man among them who would build up a wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none."