How will you celebrate your freedom this weekend? We are celebrating the birthday of your freedom. Will you give proper attention to how you respond? Will you bring a present to the party?
I was born in 1935 and my education started in 1941. Schools were hot-beds of patriotism. We celebrated our freedoms. Freedom from Oppression, Freedom from Want, Freedom of Religion. All freedoms were considered precious. It was an open secret that our forefathers founded this country on the desire for freedom. Freedom to worship or freedom not to worship, no government taxation for the support of any religion.
I remember the lines I learned in elementary school. “O beautiful for pilgrim feet, whose stern, impassioned stress a thoroughfare for freedom beat across the wilderness.” Remember “my country, ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.” “Let sweet freedom’s song ring from all the trees.” “Long may our land be bright with freedom’s holy light.” The land of the free! Millions have flocked to this land since 1776 because they heard it was the “land of the free”.
Maybe there have been too many wars and conflicts and too many political debates about involvement in them that we have lost sight of the gift of freedom that was bought with a lot of bloodshed.
Sweet freedom1 Thank God for it. It is the same in the spiritual realm. People forget the sweet freedom offered and return to slavery to their own foolishness. Galatians 5:1 (NIV) states “it is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and don’t let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”
Realize this: most of the world does not have freedom of religion. A state-run, official religion, one only, is allowed. Shame! Use your sweet liberty Sunday. It is a gift from God. Gratefully worship tomorrow.
“O God, I shudder when I think that I could have been born in a land
of oppressed people. Thank You for the blessing of a free country. Amen”
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