dailydatewithgod

God is freedom.  Before I earnestly sought out to create a relationship with God my understanding of freedom was limited.  It was a conceptual understanding in my head about an experience usually attached with a national identification or a mantra said at school every morning.  I spent my life feeling trapped and inhibited personally, mentally, and emotionally.  I had moments of breaking free and being myself but that was often met with skepticism and disdain   No wonder personal liberty remained something they wrote about in the constitution.  As I embarked on my daily prayer and meditation dates I was continually led to people and experiences that broadened my horizons.  I began to get to know God in different forms and myself.  Day by day my sense of liberty went from conceptual to experiential. What I did not understand is that liberty must be lived and breathed.  It is a choice.  A choice to believe that no matter my outside circumstances God has built within me the capacity for the freedom of love.  In my relationship with God, even if nowhere else, I can explore my personal spiritual, physical, emotional and intellectual liberty.  In doing so I am able to embrace the liberties inherent in the existence of everyone else as they are also a child of God.  There is nothing more liberating than giving yourself the permission to be yourself and doing the same for others.

If God designed us to be free to love and be loved, how might you be willing to meet God and explore your liberty today?  Share in the comments.