Free As A Bird

While freedom allows you to move freely in any direction, the outcomes sometimes can be quite harsh.  Freedom means you can reap rewards for good decisions but, equally, you are free to make bad decisions and reap the dire consequences.

 

When we believe in Jesus Christ we are instantly in-Christ (Christians) and become citizens of Heaven (eternal citizenship can never be revoked).  This is the beginning of our spiritual life where there is an enormous degree of freedom.  Which direction we decide to take is up to us - like any true freedom, we are free to succeed and free to fail. 

Like any freedom there is choice: we can use our spiritual freedom to glorify ourselves, or alternatively to glorify God.  We are free to move in any direction.  We can elect to abuse spiritual freedom and gain nothing of eternal worth or we can choose God’s way. He has promised that our decisions will reap rewards one hundred fold in eternity.   Heaven is the true land of opportunity.  We should ask ourselves daily: What am I doing with the spiritual freedom that God has so graciously given us – which Christ paid for completely on the Cross? Ponder our Lord’s words about His imminent return, “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.” (Rev 22:12)