Desiring Freedom

I was thinking today about freedom. It came to me while I was playing my guitar and singing. I, in a way, wanted to be free. Partially, I wanted to be free without God. It was like, I desired to be free without God being a part of it. I wanted to look for something good without it being attached to God. That isn’t something that great, but anyways, I realized something about that. There is no freedom outside of God. In fact, there is no good thing outside of God. Everything that is good comes from Him right? He is good.

So, if I was seeking to feel anything good or to find anything good or freeing it would be inside of Him. But if I was seeking “good” outside of Him, it would just be an illusion because everything that is good is in Him.

It goes this way, either I am bound to Him and free from things that are wrong (finding in Him everything that is good), or I am free from Him(in a way) and bound to sin (where I can find no true “good” thing, but only evil and selfish things in the end). There are no other choices. There are only two; inside of Him or outside of Him, in good or in evil. All good is in and through Him. If that is so, what is left to be outside? Only evil. We learn that in Him is no evil.
Why then would we think that we could find good outside of Him? Because evil is a deceiver. It entices us with things that seem good, but that are rooted in evil. It would be like eating a chocolate kiss and finding out that it was made out of mud upon tasting it. In our hearts, at least in mine, is a longing for good. The enemy pulls at this with deceptions of good. They are illusions that look like they are good (also cooperating with our sinful nature that likes to rebel against God). We find ourselves looking for good among evil, only to find in the end that it was mud instead of chocolate.

So, yeah. Basically I’m saying, that if you are looking for good, anything good, you will only find it in God. There is no other way. For all good is found in Him, and anything that looks good outside of Him is only an illusion destined to pull you into evil.

lata!