SPIRITUALITY AND FAITH
Freedom:
What does freedom mean to me?
What does it mean to you?
Poem written by Francine Houston
there hustling for food and shelter. I went to the Fiji Islands and parts of the country is very nice while others live in straw houses. I even work with foreigners and many talk about how women are treated inferior to men in their countries. America has fought for freedom, but Christ gave us freedom from sin when He died on the cross over 2,000 years ago. Christ gave us freedom from want when the bible says in Psalms 34:9, “O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him”.Jesus also gave us the freedom from fear when the bible says in 2 Timothy 1:7, “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
Christ also frees us from bondage when the Bible said in Joshua 24:17, “For the Lord our God, He it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed”. Also, in
Poem: Freedom
I was a slave to sin like a caged bird
bound like a prisoner with no way out;
A slave to the flesh,
to the vices of the world;
Christ died on the cross,
nailed our sins to it,
I walk in freedom and victory;
conquered the flesh
walk in the Spirit
led by Christ and not the world
bare God’s fruit and character
What freedom means to me? I have traveled outside of America and I learned to appreciate the freedom that we have in America. For instance, some countries don’t allow the freedom of speech and expression and freedom to worship God (Jesus Christ). Imagine being in prison for worshipping God, preaching the Gospel, handing out Bibles. We as Americans are given the freedom to express our love for God. We don’t have limitations on that. I have traveled to Jamaica and they don’t have welfare which means they are out