Thursday, May 15, 2003
Thursday, May 15, 2003
And that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of
righteousness.
A sad story, but a sound principle. There is something within the heart of every creature that
wants to be free. Freedom is God's plan for His children. He was there as the bricks were
removed from the Berlin wall. He was there when that lone student defied the tank in Tienneman
Square. He was there when Terry Anderson walked out of his prison cell in Beirut a free man. He
was there when Iraqi was being freed. It is absurd to interpret history as if God is dead. God is
doing a new thing!
Will we allow God's freedom to touch our hearts and lives? Jesus came to set us free.
(Romans 6.18
NRSV)
Do you remember Archibald Rutledge's story about the time he tried to capture and cage a
young mockingbird? On the second day in the cage, the young mockingbird's mother flew to her
off-spring with food in her bill. This pleased young Rutledge for surely the mother knew how to
feed her child better than he did. The following morning, however, he found his pathetic little
captive dead. When he recounted this experience to Arthur Wayne, the renowned ornithologist,
Wayne explained. "A mother mockingbird," he said, "finding her young in a cage, will sometimes
take it poison berries. She thinks it better for one she loves to die rather than to live in captivity."
Dear God, set my heart free as I daily bring Christ in to walk and live with me. Amen.
