Today’s Scripture: John 8:31-32 ESV- So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Say this out loud, I am free! Can feel the freedom and the rivers of living water flow? Jesus tells us we will know freedom if we abide in His word.
To abide is to stay in His word, to live there. It is here we find true freedom that only the Father can give.
Living with God, trusting God frees us from the lies of this world. God’s power and His Spirit overcome everything. Trusting this world and its false promises and understandings will never produce lasting freedom. Just as Jesus said we will become slaves to this sin. These Pharisee’s in Jesus’ time did not understand and wanted to kill Him.
Two thousand years later and most people still do not understand Jesus and don’t even know why they want to continue to want to kill Him and remove Him from existence. However these words in John remind us that Jesus is eternal.
Have you been enslaved by the belief that you will find some form of freedom in this world? John 8:36 promises, if the Son has set us free we are free indeed.
Do you trust the Word? Have you been set free?
Today’s Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for Your word to us. In Your word and Your Son I have found true freedom. I trust Your word over my understanding. I know Your truth is beyond what I feel or what I experience in the flesh. You LORD are my only freedom and I ask You to help me live with You. Amen
Tom Raines, Jr.
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