Introduction:
Disney makes some of the best movies known to mankind. It doesn’t matter if you are a 2-year-old girl or an 80-year-old man, you can enjoy a Disney movie. However, Disney movies always end just a little bit too soon. The vast majority of Disney movies end with a wedding. Even though the wedding is a climax, it is never the end of the story. That is just where the story begins. In our story of freedom, salvation is just the beginning! Unfortunately, like many Disney movies, we cut our story of freedom short, limiting our understanding of freedom to the moment of salvation only. However, the story of the rest of our life is finding out what that freedom is like and experiencing it in every area of our lives.
Romans 6:20-23
“For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Think about it:
Freedom from the bondage of sin that once held you captive is just the start. Sanctification, the ongoing work of God in the believer’s life, is just a continuation of experiencing freedom from sin. After Jesus has set you free, and only then, will you experience freedom from addictions and sin that once enslaved you. At the end of the wait is glorification, when you spend eternity with God. At the end of time is when that freedom becomes sight.
Take away:
Freedom is an ongoing experience for the believer.
Personal reflection:
Are you seeing freedom from sin in your life right now? What are you continuing to see freedom from and what is one area of your life that you want to see freedom grow?