True Freedom (worth reposting <3)
Back when I was a little girl, I had always dreamed of soaring high feeling like a disguised superhuman. My immature heart made me thirst to believe on the fantasies flowing in like a fountain of possibilities. Freedom as a child was not a preference but faith. Faith in the clearest water filled with an enchanted world. No one could ever stop me from my faith until time took it away. The clear water of fantasy has been corrupted with reality. Now it’s different. Freedom is now defined as being drowned in the compulsion for alcohol and outpouring of emotions through every puff of the cigarette. Freedom is the paradise of delusions brought about by drugs. There is freedom when the thirst for love and affirmation is quenched even if it costs the compromise of morals.The media and worldly standards incessantly scream to my ears that this is freedom. These thoughts are like ropes entangling me tighter to a bondage. My heart is kidnapped and is brought to the inescapable chambers of sin.
As I was in desperate seeking for an escape to this bondage, I heard a voice. And I found myself standing before the Lord. As the ropes were getting tighter, He touched my heart and striked the thick cords with the sword of His word. And I fell down on my knees, humbled by His majesty. I was set free by the power of His love.
It is freedom that empowered me to say no to ungodliness and armors me to resist on what used to be uncontrollable worldly passions. Thus, I am free to live a self-controlled, upright, and godly life just as He wants. Christ in His own words as narrated by John the beloved said that “everyone who sins is a slave to sin.” I was a slave to sin. But Christ through His death and resurrection bought the ransom out of my slavery.He has offered freedom that is different from what I’ve previously known. This freedom is a gift. It was never earned nor achieved but freely given by His grace through our faith in His words.
I was once that child believing that freedom was an escape to fantasy, and then I grew up deceived to perceive that freedom was to indulge in worldly passions. Now I am a Christian enlightened to true freedom which is an empowered choice to glorify His name. I wouldn’t replace anything from what has become.
