The Cost of Freedom
Luke 4:18 (KJV)
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. – Luke 4:18 (KJV)
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines freedom as:
1. The absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action.
2. Liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another independence.
3. The quality or state of being exempt or released usually from something onerous.
The cost of freedom is beyond words. So is the cost of exploitation wherein men and women lose their freedom to think, worship, and invent.
The purchase of freedom liberates the human spirit and frees citizens and worshipers to lift their fellow men to heights otherwise unattainable.
The question is: How much might freedom have cost Heaven? God had to watch His creation make horrible mistakes and suffer appalling results, on the innocent and the guilty, to secure the human race against the desire to question His wisdom and justice ever again. What was at stake? Nothing less than the freedom of choice.
The two most important words in all history are freedom and responsibility – two gifts God has imprinted in the human soul. To understand freedom, one needs to exercise responsibility. And to exercise responsibility, one needs to live in freedom. We really can’t have one without the other.
The cost of freedom is worth any price because nothing can substitute for it. Nothing!
Read: John 8:36; Romans 3:24
Bible Reading Guide: Psalm 50:1-15; Luke 22:1-38; Joshua 3; Joshua 4; Joshua 5:1-12
