Fences Equal Freedom

Containing kids used to be easy when they were too weak to open the gate in the backyard. Now it's too easy for them to escape.




Inside the fence is relative safety from the harms that await. Like cars. And dogs. And aren't I smart enough to think that I know best how to protect them? I would like to think so, but because I'm human, I won't be able to fully protect anyone. Not the way I'd like. If I had my way my kids would be live inside indestructible bubbles.  The only thing they would have to worry about is a lack of air.

You know God has a "fence" he places around our lives as well.  But unlike the wooden fence in my backyard that keeps dogs out, it is an invisible fence that we choose whether or not to stay inside.  It is His Word, the bible, and if we are to truly be free, we must abide by it.

The thing about freedom is that it comes with a price.  We must accept that it cost the Father everything!  His son Jesus took our place as punishment for our misbehavior.  If I tell my kids to stay in the yard and they disobey, they get punished.  But what if my oldest daughter leaves the yard and I spank my son?  You would say that is ridiculous, right?

But isn't that how God demonstrated His love for us?  Didn't we sin and Jesus pay the price?  Romans 5:8 says, "But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."

Let that sink into your heart.  We are guilty, and someone else died so that you could be free.

John 15:13 says, "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."  It's your life He died for.  Trust Him.

Let the "fence" in your heart be torn down to allow God to make it His home.  Then it won't be a place of bondage, but of freedom.