The Burden of Freedom

The Burden of Freedom

One thing I will forever remember Miles Munroe for is that mind transforming book he wrote, The Burden of Freedom. That was one book I read that got my head spinning.
I can't say if that's his bestseller but it's one I wish every one read.
I learnt that freedom is fearful and can become another bondage if certain laws are not obeyed.
It lets me know also why to many bondage is preferable to freedom particularly if they can't bear the burden.
It reminds me of the Galatian Christians, who started in the spirit but went on seeking perfection in the flesh. And apostle Paul had to admonish them to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ had set them free and not to be entangled again in the yoke of bondage. The apostle had wondered who had bewitched them...since it takes some voodoo abracadabra to lure someone back into a snare such had just escaped.

That means even for a Christian, the possibility of spiritual re-entanglement is quite high and every one would have to watch and stand fast defending the freedom Christ bought for us with a great price.

Miles Munroe had used the example of the Exodus. Personal meditations brought me into more insights. Pharaoh won't want you to go. If he lets you go, he'll demand you don't go too far and if he permits you to go far he would want you to go empty.
But you must keep your mind on the mandate of God: let my people go that they might serve me!

Freedom is for service and that service is towards God. Pharaoh wanted service to self but you can't continue in Egypt to serve man...when God wants your service even at first in the wilderness.

You can't serve God with the tetters of pharaoh, nothing on earth must dictate how far you go in serving God otherwise that has become god.

You can't tell what God will demand for service so you can't go empty or go with less than all you have to serve God. So Moses told him, our young ones will go with us and also all our herds, who knows what God would want of all of them!

In the wilderness, the burden of freedom came and complains came up. The mixed multitudes who left halfheartedly saw the red sea and started complaining and so they kept complaining until they missed the promised land.

Jesus has set us free to serve Him with all the gifts and abilities in us. We need freedom to express all that and to do the will of God. Whatever stops us binds us.

Fear is the major tool to bind a man. Fear brings to a snare. The fear of the burden of freedom. The fear of the loss of Egyptians' garlic, onions, cucumbers and even their graves! The fear of the unknown, the fear of the raging pharaoh's army trying to squeeze against the sea. The fear of personal responsibilities, the fear of the less comfortable zone...all those fears that only exist in the negative imaginations of the faithless and the slothful.

The wildness is a place of personal choices. Choose between going back to Egypt and weathering the storms by faith to enter into the promise land. Choose between the cucumbers and manna, choose between the garlic and the quails, if you won't mind the manna and the quails, God's own table set in the wilderness then you won't miss the milk and the honey of Canaan!

Break off the chains that hold you back. Jesus has set us free to be able to declare on the housetops the things He told us in the ears, and to tell it in the light the things He told us in the dark. The dark hours of hearing from God and the time of listening to receive from Him won't mean much if you are not free to declare as God would have you do.

You are free in God, your yokes are broken but don't use that freedom as a cover for sinful lifestyles but use it to develop full yieldedness to God. Paul said to the Romans, to whom you yield your members to obey to such you are a servant. He also said to the Corinthians, that we have been bought with a price and shouldn't be servants of men.

God sets us free but waits for us to use that freedom as a means of willingly submitting to His Lordship, when we do we set a safe boundaries for our freedom so that we can differentiate the edge guardrails of satan from a fence. When we go beyond the boundaries of freedom we fall disgracefully into the ditch of the devil's bondage again.
The burden of freedom demands we take the responsibility of keeping the freedom Christ has bought for us so that Jesus alone remains Lord over our lives to do His will and to enjoy the abundance of His kingdom.

[My Offline Bible] Colossians 1
13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

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