Wednesday, September 19, 2001
Wednesday, September 19, 2001
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the
law of sin
and of death.
I pray that s our response to Jesus Christ who gives us the ultimate freedom. Free to
be all God
created us to be.
(Romans 8:2
NRSV)
Abraham Lincoln went down to the slave block to buy back a slave girl. As the slave
girl looked
at the tall, homely-looking white man bidding on her, she figured he was just another
white man,
going to buy her and then abuse her. Lincoln won the bid, and as he was walking away
with his
property, he said, "Young lady, you are free." She said, "What does that mean?" He
said, "It
means you are free." "Does that mean," she said, "that I can say whatever I want to
say?"
Lincoln said, "Yes, my dear, you can say whatever you want to say." "Does that mean,"
she said,
"That I can be whatever I want to be?" Lincoln said, "Yes, you can be whatever you
want to be."
She said, "Does that mean I can go wherever I want to go?" He said, "Yes, you can go
wherever
you want to go." And the girl, with tears streaming down her face, said, "Then I will go
with
you."
Dear God, free me today and always from the things that hold be back from you. Amen.
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