“FREEDOM!!”

Me-Maw Thoughts

Number 529

June 1, 2021///

I pray you had a great Memorial Day and that you remembered those who made it possible for us to celebrate with our families or those around us.

We must remember that Freedom cost someone.  Freedom is not free. Those who came to this land to find freedom to live out their convictions faced hardships, death, and wars!

Theodor Roosevelt said: “We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.”

Eleanor Roosevelt said: “Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.”

This morning I ask you if you understand the sacrifices made for our freedom enough to be responsible to pray for its continuation.

Our Christian freedoms are being attacked on every side.  I mention just a few of them!

• Class Valedictorian gets push back from principal as he proofed her speech beforehand.  One sentence was “My future hope is found in my relationship with Christ”.  She went on to declare she wanted to honor Christ with her life!

                     (This was her speech not a declaration of the school’s stance.)

• Elementary physical education teacher is on leave because He refused to call his students by their preferred gender rather than the way God made them.

• Judge ruled, College of the Ozarks, a Christian College, must open dorms to persons of the opposite sex.  This would include bathrooms and bedrooms.

• Young Life a long-established campus ministry is coming under attack.

There is more that could be shared but the point being: “Where are our freedoms going”!

May I point out that freedom of religion is not freedom from religion!

May I also point out that we are losing our religious freedoms of choice quickly, and subtly, and we must wake up!

The Bible teaches us to pray for those in authority over us.  This means our elected and appointed leaders.  

Each of us have a free will.  We can pray that right invades the hearts of those who have authority over us and those around us or we can bury our heads in the sand and reap the results.

God wants to Bless our Nation and we as his TRULY FREE children are responsible to take up the battle cry on our knees.

Jesus paid the ultimate price for all people’s sins.  Did He die in vain?

We must be up and about His business of fighting a war that is really a spiritual war between good and evil.

1 Peter 5:8 (KJV)
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Ephesians 6:12 (KJV)
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Our battlefield is on our knees! Prayer is the answer.  Prayer will give us boldness to stand in the face of those who desire to destroy our freedom to worship the creator God in all His Power and Glory!

John F. Kennedy said: “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”

I believe the key to that is to ask not what God can do for us, but what we can do for God!

May we, the true born-again Christians rise like a mighty army and take victory in the Power of prayer!

Father, forgive us for being lazy in our prayer lives. May all who reads this understand that this is a spiritual battle.  Give us wisdom and boldness as we pray and defeat the forces of evil.  Let our lights shine brightly for you!

Prayer is Powerful!  Love, MeMaw