As Single Mama's we have what some people would call "freedom". They see that we have a "break" from the kids and seem to feel that this equals an unlimited amount of time to catch up on household chores, do the shopping,read a book, have girls nights, etcetera. It is true that every other weekend I am childless, but if you have ever had this kind of freedom, or experience the way this freedom comes about you KNOW its not all pearls and pedicures. It is true that I can paint my living room whatever color I want, with no input from anybody. I can have things "my way". I can choose to clean or not to clean. Choose to go to a movie or to stay home. I can pick out the camping spot I want. I can park my car any place in the driveway. I can keep the house thermostat set on whatever temp I so desire. And.... I am the one who holds the remote to the TV. So yes, its true I might have what some call "freedom", but at what cost? Like all parents I feel that my kids are still my babies and that they are growing up too fast! My time with my sweet kidos is so fleeting and precious its almost impossible to enjoy anytime that they are gone! They are growing so fast and I'm drinking in every moment I can spend with them before they are grown. My weekends are more likely to be spent working and trying to make the hours tick by faster rather than lounging by the pool with perfectly pedicured toes and a pristine home. Seconds can stretch on and on, when you feel like every second is taking something irreplaceable from you. My "freedom" has a deep cost. I wonder if this is how Jesus felt when he was being crucified? Seconds stretching slowly, painfully by. Every breath striping something from Him. Drenched in our sins that must have weighed so heavily on his spotless soul. And for what? The deep cost of our Freedom... But this was not for freedom as the world would see it, this was for freedom as God would see it. Freedom from sin. (Romans 8:2) Freedom from death. (John 3:16) Freedom to accept the love that God so abundantly has for us. (1 John 4:9) Freedom from oppression. (Luke 4:18 & 19) Freedom from guilt. (Hebrews 10:22) And the freedom to Choose Joy Thank you Lord for the Freedom that is found in You! In Christ we are made free by his blood sacrifice. We have forgiveness of sins because of God’s rich grace.
Ephesians 1:7
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