Free

My sweet puppy loves to dash out and greet us as soon as the door opens. The captivity is over, the bathroom holds her no longer, and whoosh, she is out like a shot to find everyone to greet and welcome and goose. It’s lovely. Insert rolling eyes. Her favorite time is “bringing in groceries”, inevitably, I have purchased her a toy and she runs in and out of the house waiting for the toy to be unveiled.

Here’s the thing. She knows her boundaries. She knows to stay in our yard. She doesn’t stray onto the street without us. She stays within her boundaries because we have taught her and admonished her. So we allow her to fly in and out of the house with joy. Yesterday, it was a stuffed, beeping hedgehog. God, give me strength until she pulls the insides out.

Starburst has freedom, within her boundaries. She has joy within her space. She knows no different. I’m sure you see where I’m going. No, we are not dogs. However, watching her yesterday, I was thinking, lessons.

God has told me over, and over, and over. I have hope. I have the Spirit of the Lord dwelling in me. I have his joy within me. I have his peace. I do not need to run to fear first. I do not need to run to my need of people pleasing. Instead, the boundaries, the fences God has placed in my life are for my good, for my joy.

When the fear, people pleasing, etc, (insert yours here), allow our fences to fly up. The Spirit of the Lord says there are greater things. So we turn to the Lord. The veil is removed. We have freedom in Christ. We are being transformed. So let us not turn back to the mud and pit of our failure and sin and old ways, let us move towards the glory of Christ.

So, today, let us walk toward him. And as we have fears or whatever it is for you, deflect with the word, with prayer, with worship. Let us progressively be transformed into His image. This is our purpose, and to bring as many people with us as possible. So join me, sloughing off the dead weight of the past, and walking towards freedom.