Done and Dusted

Just because it’s done doesn’t mean it’s done.

Have you ever received a gift for no reason, without an occasion… it’s not your birthday, you haven’t done anything out of the ordinary to be expecting presents yet here you are holding that gift in your arms.

Our gift of FREEDOM is like that, it’s a gift that has been given out of His abundant love for us however it doesn’t just become a reality in our lives. We have to receive it, open it and learn to walk this freedom out within our lives.

The first part should be easy, just take the gift… but no we don’t want anything for free, we worked hard for all we have. Then if we do take it we have to open it, don’t just pile it up with all the other boxes of stuff in our lives …. Open it!!

What does your freedom look like?

Back in Old Testament times the Israelites walked in the desert for 40 years after being set free from slavery in Egypt. They could have simply walked into their promised land however they had to learn what it was to be free. The gift of freedom was theirs however they had not experienced freedom before and they didn’t understand they had to walk into the promises for their life. They had their freedom from bondage and slavery, now it was up to them to walk out that freedom … walk into their promise.

There was a point they even wanted to go back to the known, back to their slavery because living in Freedom was too hard it was not what they thought it would be.

When you have been enslaved to something, like a job that you hate so you can pay off that debt on your house, your car, your fridge, your lounge, the tshirt you are wearing and that coffee you paid for with afterpay. This slavery has now become your normal everyday life. Finding freedom from this place feels hard, it feels like a sacrifice, like you are losing not winning. Like you are giving up everything you have known and you are now going backwards. We say this because we have felt this reality too.

However this journey from the freedom we have been given to the freedom we live, is not meant to be done alone, we get to do it in Him, our Creator. Seeing everything with new eyes, HIS EYES.

When we see though our eyes we can become overwhelmed by our circumstances and by the issues and fears in the world around us but when we see though His eyes, the eyes of eternity that are not limited by time, we can see into the fullness of how everything was created to be. These eyes are the eyes of our hearts, of life, the eyes of kindness and hope, the eyes of joy, laughter and childlikeness. The eyes of peace and unconditional love.

It’s up to us to learn to be children of God not slaves of the system. And as children we have unbridled access to the Father, he is not a cold father too busy with work and grown up things, refusing to come out and play. NO, he is the father of FREEDOM, the Father of lights, He has made a way for us to walk with Him freely, to live a life of freedom, to follow the creative desires of your heart and to BE …. We are free YES, free, free , free and now we must learn to walk in that freedom His way not the way of captivity and enslavement but the way of truth and love.