In Spite of Our Brokenness...There Is Freedom!

Originally posted on 8/03/20122

I LOVE it when a song gets stuck in my head (well…usually)
I LOVE it when worship songs get stuck in my head because it keeps my thoughts in a holy place. A song that’s been on my mind for a week now is called Freedom Reigns. I’ll put a link at the bottom of the post if you want to listen…but here are a few lyric snippets that I’ve been enjoying these last several days.
Where the spirit of the Lord is…there is freedom.

Now if you’re already a Christian, then you know this — but how often do we “REVEL” in it?! The single word freedom means sooo many things. Obviously freedom from the one thing we truly deserve which is hell, but freedom from so much more! Freedom from worrying, freedom from having to be perfect, freedom from this world, freedom from hopelessness, freedom from fear, freedom from addiction, freedom from our sin, freedom from our past, freedom from our mistakes, freedom from shame I could go on and on — but when you stop and think about it…WOW!

Yet, so often — we let the addiction, the shame, or the material things of this life have power over us and control us. So I just love the lyrics in this one simple line of the song…because it reminds me that the freedom comes WITH the spirit of the LORD (where the spirit of the Lord is)…and not apart from it!

Later in the song it says:
If you’re tired and your thirsty…there is freedom.
How often do we let ourselves get run down, tired, overworked, overextended and just keep trying to trudge along by ourselves…growing more empty by the day? We all get tired and thirsty — and I’m so thankful that He offers us the reprieve and the freedom. That He meets our every need, quenches our thirst etc.
Soak up the freedom!

Click here to enjoy this song!