True freedom is not where we think

Are you really free?

Those who have been redeemed by Christ are the most free people in the world. Why are we free? Because we are free to live in holiness, loving God and others.

Being able to do, watch, and say whatever you want is not freedom, but bondage to sin and self. Being able to love and pour your life out for God and others is true freedom, for it is what we were designed to do.

Is a roller coaster more free on the track, or sitting on the ground off the track?

Christ requires us to die to self and live to him. Living this new life where sin is attacked and righteousness is pursued is the most freedom that we can experience in this life.

I know from personal experience that when I am fighting against the world, flesh and Devil who try to control me, and I am actively engaged in acts of holiness and righteousness, that I am the freest, and happiest. I have lived for sin and worldly freedom and I can tell you that it is misery compared to the freedom of living for righteousness and bounded love.

Romans 6:4-14:

"We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace."