Freedom

I enjoy thinking in new ways. Think with me. Every book was created by an author. Every painting was created by an artist. Every building was created by an architect and builder. Every creation has a creator.

What makes us think that we can understand who we are and how we are designed to live without our Creator? No person is an island. Someone had to create us. We are connected by our relationships. I don't agree with philosophers who say, "I think, therefore I am." I have a new perspective. "I relate, therefore I am."

Many of us think of freedom in terms of being free to do whatever we want whenever we want. The problem with that perspective is that some of the richest people are slaves to their "stuff." Their money and things possess them instead of being free to bless people.

Freedom happens when we are free to be. Free to be the person we are created to be and become all we were created to be. The who comes before the what.

Our Father, Abba, meaning precious father, is the One who created us. He reveals Himself through a gift wrapped in a Person. That Person is Christ. He is a Person who knows and understands who each of us is.

He wants us to experience Him. He is Hope. He is our Encourager. He is the One and only One who is willing and able to transform our hurt into healing, our pain into peace and our problems into possibilities.

How do we know Him? Not with our rational, logical, cognitive and analytical minds. We get to know Him in an emotional and romantic way through His Spirit. Ask Him to reveal Himself to you. He longs to have a living, growing and intimate relationship with you!