Independence Day....Some Thoughts.

I am very thankful for the Freedoms we enjoy in these United States. I am all for the celebrations (within reason--which has a very fluid definition in itself) by the people who inhabit this great land and call it "home."

But more than the "freedoms" I cherish as an American, I am so grateful for the freedoms that I have in Jesus Christ, God's only Son.

Bill and Gloria Gaither (mostly Gloria, LOL) wrote a wonderful song many years ago, that has become my "anthem." This song says it all:

Deep within the heart has always known that there was freedom
Somehow breathed into the very soul of life.
The prisoner, the powerless, the saved have always known it
There`s something that keeps reaching for the sky.
Even life begins because a baby fights for freedom
And songs we love to sing have freedom`s theme.

Some have walked through fire and flood to find a place of freedom
And some faced hell itself for freedom`s dream.

Let freedom ring wherever minds know what it means to be in chains
Let freedom ring wherever hearts know pain.
Let freedom echo through the lonely streets where prisons have no key
We can be free and we can sing --- let freedom ring!

God built freedom into every fiber of creation
And He meant for us to all be free and whole.
When my Lord bought freedom with the blood of His redemption
His cross stamped pardon on my very soul!

I`ll sing it out with every breath, I`ll let the whole world hear it
This hallelujah anthem of the free!
That iron bars and heavy chains can never hold us captive
The Son has made us free and free indeed!

Let freedom ring down through the ages from a hill called Calvary
Let freedom ring wherever hearts know pain.
Let freedom echo through the lonely streets where prisons have no key,
You can be free and you can sing-- let freedom ring!

All I can say is "Amen."