Abundantly Free

What a phrase! The reality that you are abundantly free! This is not just free, not just allowed, not just independent - but abundantly free! The your life is completely without restraint! We all to often view our world as one with competely full of restraint. We think thoughts that make us believe that we can't do certain things, that people will not believe in us, and that our dreams are not possible because we are not looking at possibilites but all the things that would hold us back. We believe that this is the truth of our lives. We so desire to break free from this, we beg God, we beg others, we hope, we dream, and all the time we are abundantly free!

Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we're a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.
It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.

Ephesians 1:7-12

Long before you even were here on earth, God was thinking about us, had is eye on us, and was working out our purpose. We hold that back so many times, because (as discussed in the last post) we really think God is playing some devious trick on us. If bad things are happening, how could this be God taking care of me. We resist the truth that God is always about us and our business. Do not resist it today, accept it and believe it and know it!
Namaste'