In Psalm 119:32, David declares, "I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free." What a different perspective David had on the relationship of God's truth to our personal freedom. It is because God set his heart free that he's even able to run in and pursue a life of truth. David unlocks for us the reality of TRUE freedom. See, most of what we call freedom actually 'imprisons' us...For example, we are free to spend our money as we wish - but that may take us into a prison of debt.
It is only when God sets our hearts free from these passions that imprison us that we are finally free to be fully alive. In Psalm 37:4, David gives us another secret to living a life of passion..."Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart." When you make God your PRIMARY passion, He will transform ALL the passions of your heart. When God is truly our desire, we can trust the passions of our heart.
This brings me to a question that might make us think differently about what we have a passion for: Adam and Eve...What were they doing hanging around that ONE tree that was forbidden? I mean, this was the Garden of endless delight. They were FREE to eat from any tree in the Garden but that ONE. I wonder how big the Garden actually was? Here's the BIGGER question:
Is it possible that Adam and Eve fell into the same trap that we do - a view that freedom is to go and experience that which God has forbidden rather than to FULLY experience all that God has created for our pleasure?
Wow! Awesome stuff!
Posted by: Margo | July 21, 2008 at 08:28 PM
You are so right. I do everything as a Christ follower that I want to do, Christ has changed my wants to fall in line with His.
Posted by: Liz | July 25, 2008 at 09:57 AM