The Wrong Freedoms

So tell me: are you good at loving your mother?

Are you good at loving your brother, and your sister, and your neighbor next door?

If you are married, are you good at loving your wife or your husband?

Or are there more important things for you to do, like watching TV, rearranging your sock drawer, playing computer, or cleaning the mold out of your deep-freeze?

Or do you have really important things to do, vastly more important things, like working three jobs in order to afford your expensive house and your expensive car, or spending hours and hours making your house or your church building look like a magazine poster?

If this is familiar, that's good: at least you have a clue that something is wrong. We may have righteous pity on those who not only have no clue, but do not care enough to want one. But what, exactly, is wrong with this picture?

Let me suggest that the problem is simple: we have a lack of freedom.

Now I understand that on first, second, or twentieth reading, this may not make sense to you. But pray, let me expand.

I suggest that when we prefer other things to loving our mother, our brother, our sister, our wife or husband, and our neighbor next door, those things are chains, bondages, and enslavements: things which deny us good and true freedom.

I suggest that it is not possible to fight for this freedom.

I suggest that access to this freedom has nothing to do with killing people:
I suggest that all the wars in this world have never given anyone more of this freedom.

I suggest that, if you investigate, you will find that under the most oppressive regimes in this world, as well as within the so-called "free" world, this good and true freedom exists – but only among the truly meek and humble, among people that believe that evildoers do not have the right to the pursuit of happiness.

Do you have this freedom? Or are you enslaved to things which God has promised to destroy?

If you want help, please ask the Father of the Lord Jesus. If you don't know how, please contact any of those who do; we are eager to help.

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