Day 2- Jeremiah 2:12-15

Freedom

My Bible study was short this morning, so I jumped around a bit. I guess I kept coming back to the idea of freedom in Christ. Sometimes I think of my life with Christ as a picture---it's me standing at the very edge of the Grand Canyon, toes are so close to the edge they can feel the breeze from down below. As I look down, it's scary and exciting and unknown, and yet I'm ready to jump. . . almost.

(In case you are worried about me right now, I should say that I see the Grand Canyon as a life abandoned for Christ. No cares or worries about where he calls me or what he calls me to. Just a life lived in complete "wheels off" craziness for Christ. --I've never used that expression before, Corey but it fits.-- Trusting every step of the way.)

The problem is when you look closer there are strings holding me back. And Jeremiah 2:12-15 makes it clear that I'm holding those strings. The strings of comfort, unknown, other's view of me, laziness, distrust. Verse 14 says, "Is Israel a servant, a slave by birth? Why then has he become plunder?"

So here is the question. To what have we, have I, become slaves? Something to which we were never intended to bow? Other's opinions? Worry? Convenience? Doubt? Critical nature? Negative attitude?
O Lord, give me the courage, in you, to open my hands, let go of the strings and jump! Live a free life with you!

Does the song “Brave” come to mind, by Nicole Norteman?