"Liberty"

I am seeing something in the lives of many Christians that is disturbing me. It has infected all levels of God's people. I am talking about the lack of liberty and freedom that is the inherent right of every child of God. It matters not who you are or where you came from or came what you've come through...you have a right to liberty. Let me make a statement that needs to be made. God has not willed His people, anyone for that matter, into bondage or destruction. He gets no pleasure seeing you or I under the control of any power except His own. One of the biggest deceptions is the picture of God that many people, even Christians, have perpetrated; One Who is always out for vengeance, out to take everything you've got away if you do not tow the line. This just isn't so!! It is the good pleasure of the Lord to bless you, not to destroy you. He has gone to the extreme to prove His love for all mankind.... " For God so love the world that He gave His only begotten Son ". In the New Testament we find only one book that deals with judgment. The rest is God's directions for us to live and walk in liberty. What Is Liberty? It depends on what an individual is bound by/with. To the hungry person..it is a day w/o hunger pains; to the homeless...it is a night out of the cold; to the battered wife....it is a place where pain is not the normal: to the abused child...it is a parent or anyone who will take them in their arms and love on them: to the alcoholic it is freedom from a destructive craving: to the addict...it is being able to feel normal once again. Your personal prison is anything that holds and controls you. It is liberation from that prison that opens up the way to a life of peace and provision. Our Rights To Liberty Established By The Word: Liberty= Dismiss/ loose from. John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (You are free through and through.)Message Bible Gal. 5:1,13 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 13For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty. Message Bible: It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Rather, use your freedom to serve one another in love; that’s how freedom grows. Jn. 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. Message Bible: I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of. Heb. 12:12-13 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; 13And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. Amp. So then, brace up and reinvigorate and set right your slackened and weakened and drooping hands and strengthen your feeble and palsied and tottering knees, And cut through and make firm and plain and smooth, straight paths for your feet [yes, make them safe and upright and happy paths that go in the right direction], so that the lame and halting [limbs] may not be put out of joint, but rather may be cured." 2 Corinthians 4:8, "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; These are facts concerning every child of God and a promise to everyone who will choose to accept Christ as their Savior. It matters not a whit what you are going through or what you are faced with….nothing nor anyone can alter these facts. We, since our rebirth, have been liberated and we, until He comes back, will always be liberated!!! We must not allow anyone...any circumstances...past or present dictate to us who or what we have a right to.