What does freedom mean to you?
The universal answer to today’s prompt may be: Freedom means everything to me — without freedom, no living freely; without living freely, no real life.
While the majority of people do nothing to lose their freedom, there are those who do everything to surrender control of it to others. Chasing wealth, fame, or power, for instance, can trap a person for life — yet these are worth more than freedom to some. Taking revenge by murder is another way to lose freedom entirely in prison, or even to pay life for life.
To avoid the temptation of crime is not easy, but to be free from the desire to sin is far harder. Yet all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and the wages of sin is eternal death (Romans 3:23; 6:23). We live in a world unfree from sin — who can set us free? (1 John 2:2)
Freedom is priceless — and so is salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus paid the price of sin for those who believe in Him: the righteous died for the unrighteous, to bring them to God (1 Peter 3:18).
To me, freedom is a two-edged sword: one edge frees you in the flesh to continue sinning and pay the price of eternal death; the other frees from sin’s power, to receive the crown of life. My choice is obvious. What’s yours?
May my poem shed some light on your contemplation of freedom. 👇🏻
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“Agent of Freedom” ~ ✨
Live in freedom, boundless, wild —
Boundless, wild, a world defiled.
A world defiled, no wrong or right —
No wrong or right, they call dark light.
They call dark light, they call light dark —
They call light dark, till all turns stark.
All turns stark, the end of days —
The end of days, new heaven’s blaze.
New heaven, new earth — where justice stays.
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Mark 1:15
“The time is fulfilled, the kingdom is near.
Repent, and believe the gospel.”
✨✨💖 ~
en yan hua fang 