What is freedom?
Most of the time freedom is painted as a picture of someone roaming free with no boundaries. When I personally think of being free I think of a person with no cage , no chains, with nothing holding a person back. I often see a person in an open field being able to run in any direction they freely choose with nothing in the way or stopping that person. Like freedom is always connected in my mind to a mindset that speaks I can do whatever I want when I want and no one can stop me.
I remember being a young teenager and just telling myself I couldn’t wait to be free from the cage of being a child and being able to do what I wanted when I wanted. So when the time came for me to be that adult I shortly realized I was more free at home as a teenager then as an adult bound by the responsibilities of life. When I was a teen rules and boundaries kept me bound but as I grew older and those rules and boundaries came unloosed in my life I just realized I had to put on a great weight of chains called responsibility.
Freedoms is Being Present & Still
I believe what I’m saying is that in one season what we imagine is freedom is only connected to the disagreement or the dissatisfaction of what we are temporarily living in or under at that moment. Many times freedom is only associated to a present desire. The oxymoron is that if we didn’t have that desire we wouldn’t feel encaged. So if freedom is the goal when we live to be free because of our present desire we are in essence bound to our desire in that moment & will only feel as free as our desire is meant.
As I have been connected to this area in my heart I’ve come to realized that yes freedom is being able to roam free in the midst of an open field as we truly please with nothing or anyone stopping us but also is the choice to be present and not make a choice to do anything. Like the power to do what I want is only lead by desire but the power to remain still in that midst is truly freedom. Not to desire anything but to be present with everything in one moment is truly freeing.
My Heart is Longing
I recently found myself in a open cemetery and realized that many of us live bound by the desires or even the drive of life to only realize that the freedom my heart was longing for was the desire to simply be open and present in one moment with no desire, no drive but simply connecting to the present truth in that moment. For me freedom revealed himself as a different expression. An expression I would have never connected to if I wouldn’t have paused my desire and connect to my present truth which is the freedom in Christ and not in anything. Just simply in the heart of my savior! No desire , no drive just a son connecting to the love of his father with no expectation just truth at the forefront leading to a moment of stillness inside the heart of God. I’ve realized that another expression of freedom is being still.
Key Blog Scripture
“Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.”
Psalm 46:10-11 KJ
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