Thursday, March 3, 2011

Free!

I have been struggling with the desire for freedom lately.  Freedom from past regrets and failures.  Freedom from the hurts done to me by others.  Freedom from the constant question box that my brain enjoys keeping full.  Freedom from trying to be perfect.  Freedom from fear.  Freedom from it all - all the stuff that holds me back, holds me down.

Jesus told us that He came to give us life and life to the full.  He also said "you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."  So I KNOW that we are supposed to be free, we are supposed to fly like the eagle.  I want that freedom He promised us.  I don't want to live without it anymore.

So each day I am choosing to be free - to not carry all the burdens along on my journey that have been weighing me down for so long.   I choose not to be afraid when fear comes knocking.  I choose not to relive the past regrets and hurts that try to crawl into my bed with me at night.  I choose to reject the proposals that perfection keeps dropping in my mailbox and accept that I am just human.  I choose to learn how to rest on the soft comfortable bed of God's mercy and wrap myself in the blanket of His grace and just rest.   I choose freedom.  He offers it to us all.

Isaiah 55:1

 “Come, all you who are thirsty,
   come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
   come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
   without money and without cost.

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  1. MaryMarch 8, 2011 at 1:03 AM

    Philippians 3:12-14

    12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

    13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

    14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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