John 8:36 (The Promise)
“36 So if the Son sets you free, you are free through and through.”
To be set free is not to be able to do what ever I want to do when ever I want to do it. To be free is to be a different person than I was, with a heart open to being willing to forgive; willing to encourage; willing to help; willing to be a servant of compassion in a world of hate, bringing light in the darkness.
To be set free by the love of God is to become, as Luther once said, “Little Christ’s” who go about doing good, not because this is the way to earn heaven but because this is the way to show that we are free from the fear of losing heaven and to show not only that we love God, but that God first loved us!
Prayer thought for the week: “Lord, let your light shine through me;
set me free to love!” Amen
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