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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
- A. W. Tozer
Words have the power to shape our vision for life, to open wide our understanding of God’s nature, to motivate us in our life-long goals. Words have power. I am so excited about this week’s word: Freedom.
Drawing unique designs for my little granddaughter Lilian is what she often wants me to do.
“Draw me something with patterns that I can color in!!”
And so I drew a whole page full of differently sized triangles with borders around them so she could color the outsides in different colors.
“Oh, good job, Queenie. I just love the way you draw.”
I am so happy when my sweet one is happy—it is my delight to please her and see her respond to my own love. It is what Tozer said, God is pleased when we are pleased and wants us to be free as birds!
This week’s word, freedom, is very biblical and soooo wonderfully encouraging—such a profound Biblical word to understand and live by.
Freedom in a biblical sense means: emancipation, the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved
We do not have to be slaves to our shame, our failures, our weakness. We have been emancipated, let out of guilty land, because of His work. Just look at some of these verses:
Romans 8: 2: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
Galatians 5:13 : For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.
II Cor. 3: 17: Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Jesus opened his ministry with this reading from Isaiah, (Luke 4:18): "The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free,
Great news indeed!
May this week’s podcast encourage you to your toes.
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