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What will I spend my freedom doing?

Today, most of us will rise and we will have a plethora of choices.  We can choose what to eat, what to wear, how to start our day, where to go, what to do.  There are so many options available to us.  We have the freedom to choose. We can choose our attitude for the day.  We can choose what we're going to focus on.  We can choose what we want to accomplish today. 

So, what are you going to do with your freedom?  This is not a question that everyone gets to ask.  Oh, no.  This is a question of privilege.  This is a first-world question; this is an American question; this is a THIS generation question.

Will you be like David? "One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple."  Will you spend your freedom with the One who set you free?

Let's set some time aside today to say Thank you Daddy, to our Heavenly Father who gave us his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him, shall not perish but have everlasting life.  That's right! Freedom from sin.  Freedom from death.  Freedom from the snares that bind us and trip us up. 

In the famous words of Martin Luther King, Jr., who was bold in his declaration, "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I'm free at last!"

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