Today we celebrate freedom, but what is freedom exactly?

Today or tomorrow depending on what time I press the publish post icon we celebrate our nation's independence.  A weekend of fireworks, cook outs, beach trips, and whatever to celebrate freedom.  But are we truly free?  Watching the baseball game today I saw tv commercials with American flag decorated beer cans, and it just made me wonder, does it really make sense to celebrate freedom we have received by our service men and women losing their lives by getting sloppy drunk.



If that's how you choose to celebrate this weekend, don't get me mad for asking that.  It's your choice, and by all means if that's what you want to do you are free to do it.  Still is that freedom?  The great American song writer once sang "You've got to serve somebody."  "It may be the devil or it may be the Lord, but you're going to have to serve somebody."  Now you can try to remain neutral, in Matthew 12:30 Jesus says, "He who is not with me is against me".



From a worldly perspective that may not make much sense, but looking at that statement with the scales removed from your eyes makes all the difference in the world.  If you read the Bible the word free is mentioned 125 times and liberty 41.  Freedom may look like doing whatever you want to do on the outside. but in reality the choices we make can ruin our lives physically and spiritually.




I know this may sound to preachy for some, but that small still voice just put this on my heart tonight.  I know for me personally I never knew freedom until I made some changes in how I was living, and let the Lord lead me to a new live where I was free to say no to things that used to control and say yes to a live of purpose.  In the next few blogs I'm going to talk about that purpose.  I also hope to start back with some culturally relevant discussion on my other blog, http://highwaybyway.blogspot.com/.  Until then have a safe July 4th.