Freedom. What an amazing blessing. We take it for granted, the greatest of these is the free will to chose. I pondered my blessings as I traveled this past week. I drove freely across several states. I stopped when I wanted, for how long I wanted, and for what I wanted.
How easily this can be lost, in a moment, at any time, we can lose it...or worse yet, we can simply forfeit it.
God offers us even far greater freedom, the freedom to chose to turn to him, to trust him as the Lord God, or to turn away from Him. He absolutely leaves this choice to us. He gave his best for us, he sent his Son to die for our sin, and loves us, even when we don't love Him.
Then, he leaves us the choice to love Him in gratitude and thanks, or we have the freedom to reject him, to reject his love, and his costly sacrifice. The greatest freedom we have, isn't living in America, it isn't having abundant blessings, it's the simple freedom to chose to receive God's gift of ultimate love, or to ignore and reject Him. Use your freedom wisely, chose carefully. The freedom he gives you to chose, has eternal consequences.
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