🕊️  If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all. 🕊️

Colossians 3:1-11

“Freedom isn’t free!” It’s an expression many have given meaning to its use. The root of its meaning is the cost of that freedom and what it takes or took for that freedom to become a reality. This is a journey which each of us must begin with recognizing the past and how that freedom replaces the behavior of past with a new present and new behavior, a new path to follow to a brighter future.

🕊️  Today, I’m using, “Freedom isn’t free!” in the context of our spirituality!

God gives us many scriptures, as read clearly above saying, “Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.” And “put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.” These are not just clues, but direct, clear, and concise meaning to being, “Spiritually Free”, free from the human condition of self and self-seeking. Jesus offers us a new Way, as outlined clearly in His Word. Many who choose not to hear His Word, cannot be free because their mind’s eye is on self, rather than the creator, Jesus Christ, who has opened up the door to our true freedom. 

John 8:31-32  Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

🕊️ All we need to do is follow You! Help me Lord, this day, to follow You! Help me to become more like You, in all I say and do, in Jesus’ name, Amen! 🕊️