Okay. So having freedom doesn't mean you can't have a bad day. I've been beating myself up all day because today has just been a flat out hard day with challenges and lots of tears. And I was telling myself that I couldn't blog since I was having a bad day, obviously I'm not experiencing freedom. Well, it's taken most of the day, but I finally talked myself out of that lie! Bad days happen! Pain happens! That is all part of being human. God does not promise that life on earth will be free from pain. Ha! The freedom from that will come in our next life, when we are at home with our Father.
Hmmm. Interesting. I had searched "freedom" on biblegateway.com and stumbled across Romans 8:20-21. Check it out, "For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God." Isn't that kinda like what I was just talking about? I dunno. I'm not even close to knowing my stuff when it comes to the Bible. I wish I did. It's my goal, but I never seem to be able to "get" what people are talking about when they dissect verses and all. I always feel really stupid. But anyway, this verse really stands out to me. I keep reading it over and over. Anyway, I don't know.
So my lesson for the day. I haven't "fallen off the wagon" because I have had a bad day, shed a few, no, a lot, of tears, had doubts and challenges. I think the key is where I go from here. Does my bad day turn into a week of believing Satan's lies? Do I let the pain I am experiencing discourage me from continuing to seek God's truth and believe that true freedom from my bondage exists? No. I take today for what it was. A bad day. I learn from it. I bury my nose in the Good Book to fill my head with God's truths. I continue to learn. And I continue to BELIEVE.
Kelly, perhaps it wasn't a bad day - after all, you were driven into the Word.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't let those folks who "dissect" the Word and expound on it so eloquently make you feel stupid (that's Satan making you feel that anyway). The important thing is that you be in the Word, letting it speak to you in the way God wants to speak to you. You are not stupid. You have the Spirit of Jesus in you and He will reveal to you what God wants you to know, when He wants you to know it! Keep seeking! This is a journey and one day all this crap will be worth it all. Love you!