The defining question of this time in history and for your life is this: Will you choose freedom or give in to slavery?

Freedom is costly, not just for you but for many you’ll never know. Slavery is cheap. It is the path of least resistance. It does not take a literal prison or chains to enslave you. Freedom begins in your own mind and the choices you make.

Americans received political and economic freedom after the Revolution, beginning in 1776. Never before in human history had a people enjoyed a government designed to project their God-given right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Freedom to come and go as you please, pursue a career, or any passion openly is just the beginning stage. The deepest, most meaningful freedom defies status, political boundaries, geography, color, age, anything.

Viktor Frankl, an Austrian-born neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor, captured in his writings about life as a Nazi prisoner the essence of freedom:

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” 

Frankl determined that for every human, “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

The Apostle Paul’s words echo this sentiment, “ It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery” (Galatians 5:1).

The promise of Christ is that your freedom from the sin nature, shared by every human, has already been bought and paid for. All you must do is accept it and reject any thought or words that contradicts that truth.

Galatians 5:1-12

Carla G. Harper - Author, Publisher, Speaker