This Is How It Feels To Be Free!

Ephesians 4: 1-3 In light of all this, here's what I want you to do. While I'm locked up here, a prisoner for the Master, I want you to get out there and walk—better yet, run!—on the road God called you to travel. I don't want any of you sitting around on your hands. I don't want anyone strolling off, down some path that goes nowhere. And mark that you do this with humility and discipline—not in fits and starts, but steadily, pouring yourselves out for each other in acts of love, alert at noticing differences and quick at mending fences.

Today I was reading a blog and she quoted the above verse in Ephesians; it touched my heart so much because I don't want to ever let this peace that God has given me turn into complacency. The dictionary defines complacency as a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with one's self or accomplishments. But as I think about it all of these feeling I have right now I know it isn't complacency but rather is how it feels to be free! A complete and utter peace with the Lord's will. There's a complete understanding that this situation is all part of His will for my life, and though I may not understand why my path is changing I understand that God and God alone is changing it, and I feel free!

I know there is a risk of growing complacent in this feeling, but that is where my job as a Christian goes into OVERDRIVE, I cannot begin strolling along this new path, I must run towards His will! As the verse below states I must do this with humility and disciple, I must stay steady, I must give of myself to further reach God's will! There's one more thing that I MUST do as a free follower of Christ, I must let go and let God have control! I must freely give Him my life, fears, concerns, anxiety, and let Him work through me! This is how I will avoid the great rick of growing complacent!

Lord I know that You are the author of my life and just as the awesome author You are; You have written in my life a great highs and crushing lows, but yet through it You are the One I praise. My satisfaction and accomplishments are Yours Lord! Father I pray that I run to Your will, I want to follow that road you have laid out for me! Father please never let me grow complacent on this road but rather please fill me with an ever increasing desire to follow You! Father it's all for Your will, Your glory, Your honor, and to give You my utmost praise!

"This Is How It Feels To Be Free"

There is a wall that has been standing
Since the day that Adam fell
Sin is where it started
And Sin is why it held
Speaking as a prisoner
Who was there and lived to tell
I remember how it fell

I can here the sound of freedom
Like a distant voice who called
And beckon me to follow
Where I had never gone
And though my heart is willing'
I just stood there at the wall
Praying somehow it would fall

But in a cross I found a doorway
And a hand that held a key
And when the chains fell at my feet
For the first time I could see

Chorus:
This is how it feels to be free
This is what it means to know that
I am forgiven
This is how it feels to be free
To see that life can be more than I imagined
This is how it feels to be free
This is how it feels to be free Yeahhh!

There are days when I'm reminded
Of the prison I was in
Like a living nightmare
Burning from the viel
I can feel the voice of evil
I can hear the call of sin
But I wont go back again

See, once I've tasted freedom
Then the walls could bind no more
Since mercy gave me wings to fly
Like an eagle I can soar

repeat chorus

Somewhere there's a prison
Where the chains still burn
If not for the grace of god
Those walls could still be mine
So far all the captives are saved