Freedom

Psalm 119:45, ” I will walk in freedom, for I have devoted myself to your commandments.”

You are familiar with graffiti. Most of the time I cannot read it. But this time it was different. In big letters was written on the wall:” Take the law off our backs.”

Was that a cry for help? I think it was a cry for freedom.

Many years ago I read in Reader’s Digest and will not forget, what I read.” There is no real freedom without a sense of responsibility.”Who is right? The graffiti man or Reader’s Digest. Let the Bible, the Word of God be the judge. In Psalm 119:45 the psalmist says,” I will walk in freedom, for I have devoted myself to your commandments,” And in the same Psalm in verse 32 he cries out,” I run in the paths of your commands, for you have set my heart free.”

So the truth is that there is no freedom without a sense of responsibility. We are responsible to the law of God and we must also be responsible to the law of the land as long as it is not in conflict with the law of God. Then we have real freedom.

Let me conclude with an example. The law of this country dictates that we drive on the left side of the road. What if that was not a law? You can imagine the results. And of course our heart wants to be set free and has to be set free.

When we allow God’s word to be a lamp to our feet and a light for our path it will be set free indeed.

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