And I'll stride freely through wide open spaces
as I look for your truth and your wisdom;
Then I'll tell the world what I find,
speak out boldly in public, unembarrassed.
as I look for your truth and your wisdom;
Then I'll tell the world what I find,
speak out boldly in public, unembarrassed.
In my Christian life, I have been conditioned to allow myself to be shackled by many things.
No one person or set of people actually taught this to me...but it has always been implied with this stripe of "Christian" that I wear.
When I first really gave my life to the Lord at 16 years old, in the Jesus people movement, the buzz words of the day were "discipline" "obedience" "submission" "self control"... law, law, law! Looking back, I wonder where the grace was...and what about JOY?
As a child, I remember running through fields with wild abandon. ...not running towards anything nor away from anything...but just running for the sheer joy of it. What in the world happened to that? In my mind, I can almost FEEL it!
...and I remember, once again, my HAPPY HEART.
Now that I find myself breaking out of the mold, it is sadly amazing how the Christian life - which shoulld bring FREEDOM in Christ - is so often a prison of religious rules and regulations and Do Not's. I love that: Wide Open Spaces. That's what we should be. A wide open space able to receive and become anything God wants to make us or give us or show us or teach us. Break off the shackles and dance in it!
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