What is freedom? True freedom?

Is it doing whatever you want whenever you want?

Is it not being bound by any rules or authority?

Is it going out on the town and staying up until 3 am every night or getting drunk or high every night?

Is it living out of control with no plan or thought for the future?

Is it saying to yourself, “I’m under grace, so I can do anything– even sin– and ask for forgiveness in the morning?”

Is that really freedom?

Or is freedom being free to be exactly who God made you to be and discover what He made you for?

Is it freedom from anybody ever hanging any guilt trip over your head ever again?

Is it living with no regrets in a second innocence where you have no more reason for shame?

Is it knowing that your own life is not really yours, but that you belong to Another who has great plans for you and a greater purpose for you to be involved in? That in every moment you are securely and safely in His everlasting arms?

Which sounds better to you? The first kind of freedom with no rules, no purpose, and no meaning, or the second kind where your freedom is being a part of God’s campaign to set things right and set others free?

Am I asking too many questions? Have I been reading too much of Rob Bell lately? When will this blog ever end? Can I go to bed now?

The answers to the last four questions are: Yes. Yes. Soon. Yes.

May you find true freedom in the Jesus Who came to proclaim the Year of the Lord and to set His captives (including you and me) free. And last of all, don’t you hate it when a blog ends with a question?