What is Your Freedom?

What is freedom? Some may think that freedom is doing everything they want. According to the dictionary, it is “the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint”. Does being free means we have the right to do anything, including bad things?

Freedom is not Being Imprisoned.

What the world presents us as freedom often gives us the illusion that we have control when, in reality, we can slowly but surely get controlled. We hear that money, material things, open relationships will bring us freedom, and we find ourselves addicted to it, or more in debt if we don’t watch out. In 1 corinthians 6:12, it is written: “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. Freedom might be the right to do anything, but we need to make sure those things do not enslave us. Otherwise, we are not free anymore.

Freedom is found in submission to God

We are free, but we need guidance. What if freedom required a new way of submission? 

• Submission to good,
• Submission to love,  
• Submission to the truth,
• Submission to our Creator.

Because God knows what is best for us, freedom can be found when we surrender to his will and follow Jesus. To live freely requires that we renew our minds, let go of the slave mentality that the world wants us to keep. Jesus shows us the path to freedom and happiness. When we put our lives in God’s hands, we don’t have to worry anymore. We depend on nothing else but Him, and He is always faithful.

What the Bible says About Freedom

We are free!  

John 8:36: “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”

Our freedom is in us. 

2 Corinthians 3:17 “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”

We should use our freedom to serve and love one another.

Galatians 5:13-14

13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

What is your freedom? I found mine in Christ!