ONE LAST WORD ON INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND

Freedom is the inalienable right given to us by Almighty God.  The right to choose that is given us by our Creator marks freedom as the most precious abstract quality available to mankind.  Our freedom is not that we can or cannot choose, we all have to choose. The freedom is in what we choose to believe.  Not choosing is a choice in itself. I believe that choice, the ability to freely choose, given to mankind by our Creator is the only possible way that God could give of Himself to us.  "Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love."  (1 John 4:8 ESV). If we humans were not given the ability to choose, yea or nay, this or that, how could we love?   Without freedom we could not love nor could we be loved. God is not only a God of Love, He is a Holy and Just God Who demands perfection.  However, His love is so great the he made provisions for an imperfect, unholy world to have a way to know and to love Him.  Jesus Christ told the Pharisee named Nicodemus these words:  “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.” (John 3:16-18 ESV) The correct choice is awesome, and the incorrect choice is horrifying.  You and I have the freedom to choose. The correct choice has unbelievable benefits the instant you make it.  You choose in Whom you will believe in, the Son of Almighty God or someone else, or something else, or even yourself.  There is only one correct choice and you and I are free to choose it or we can choose to reject it.   How we choose has eternal ramifications.  There is only one truth.  It doesn’t matter what we think is true, or how we feel about what we think or what others may think is true or not true. There is only one truth.  And, this truth will set you free! “and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32 ESV) FREEDOM! THAT'S WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT!