Maybe if I knew what my “we are descendants of Abraham” was I would know what keeps me from being free. But the sad truth is that those who claim to be “truly my disciples” are often just as bound as those who could care less. The truth is not as easily defined as one might think and as soon as you “name it and claim it” you have lost it. “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose” (Janis Joplin - Me & Bobby McGee) might not be Gospel but it is truth. When you get to the place where what is essential to you is what makes a difference for someone else you come close to freedom from self. No one has ever been freer than Jesus when was healing or preaching or praying or in the end dying. Freedom for Jesus was the cross and the sad and wonderful truth is that it is the same for us.
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