This last weekend has been a life changing time for me. Many may not understand but something clicked in me. I think that I was at the point in my life that I was angry inside and I felt so distant from God. We all have ups and down in Christianity but its how we handle it that matters in the difference in our attitudes and our walk.
Our walk with Christ should be one continual victory, not victim mentality, who is me, look at me I have been through soo much. Yes we should speak on our testimony and share that but the glory should not be in the testimony circumstances but in the one who brought you out of it. So yes there is a difference about freedom and living as the Bride of Christ, which is true freedom.
So a lot has happened in the past several weeks with me. Yes there was some church hurt left overs but personally my family has be stretched to its limits with owning 2 houses and some others things along with that. One thing that I have learned is that life isn't about how sad I am but its about walking as the Bride of Christ.
Yes I keep saying the Bride of Christ and many people don't want to equate intimate thoughts with Jesus. But this is what I mean. Once we accept that Jesus offered his life freely to us at his first communion he extended the cup as a representation of him, some may not realize that this in Jewish customs was done when a groom offers the cup to his potential bride. The groom negotiates a high price for her and then he extends the cup to her and if she drinks of it then its her way of accepting his love and that she is free to know that she is secure in his love.
Do we as a christian believing people really believe and accept the freedom that his love gave us. He did it freely, so there wasn't really a price to be paid, it was act of love, which means there is no obligation for us to have to serve him because he gave his life. We should serve him because we desire to love him and we desire him and because we want to. We we totally accept and become vulnerable that under the shadow of his wing is where we are safe in his love, There is a protection, security that that brings.
I know that I am loved by him, I am his Bride and I am truly free to live to walk in victory knowing that whatever comes my way God will defend because under his wings I am safe and secure and he is my refuge.
Churches have caught the wave of all the free and freedom songs that can be sung in church are. But do we really understand what free means??
Here are some definitions that I find interesting considering they didn't come from a spiritual place or book but from a regular dictionary off the internet.
- Given, made, or done of one's own accord; voluntary or spontaneous,Unconstrained; Not imprisoned or enslaved; being at liberty,Not controlled by obligation or the will of another,Not subject to a given condition exempt unconstrained,free or remove obstruction from,not held in servitude,absolve: let off the hook,release....grant freedom 2; free from confinement,dislodge: remove,able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restrain
I want you to ponder those definitions for a minute and see if those change your perspective of free and what it means.
Jesus free gave his life for us to be unconfined, unrestricted, not bound, unobstructed, not imprisoned or enslaved, not controlled by obligation not held in servitude, absolve, released, granted freedom. Wow this really enlightens me to see that there is soo much security in knowing that when I truly accept that he is my groom that he will take care of me, he will protect me, I don't have to worry, I don't even have to repay, that he is not expecting that I do the same, but he desires that I love him and give back to him because I want to do it because of his love not to get anything in return or out of obligation but out of love.
A whole new concept. This even equates into our relationships. I don't want friends who feel obligated to, or just because, or feel guilty I want friends to be around because they want to.
To walk in freedom of accepting the love that he has for us and what it really means is a whole new thing, its something many don't understand. Yes we accept Jesus in our hearts and we love him and he has changed us but we don't see what he is really saying when it comes to the love he has for us,
Oh how he loves us, oh how he loves us.!!!!!!
Under his wings I will be, under his wing I will scaled the mountains, under his wing i will slay the enemy, under his wing will I abide, I am secure I am loved under his wing is where I want to be,
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