An excerpt from "Life Bible - Presbyterian Church.com" entitled, "John 08:31-37 - Freedom From Bondage" by Rev. Charles Seet, states: "Now, to some people freedom is the right to do whatever they desire, whenever they desire, with no one telling them what to do. One such person was the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-24). He asked his father to give him his share of the inheritance and then he left his father's home and went to a far country so that he could be free to live without any interference or constraints whatsoever. But was he really free? No. After he had squandered everything he had on pleasure and prostitutes he ended up with pigs. And he was so hungry that he would not even mind eating the horrible stuff he fed to the pigs!
I don't think any of us would like this kind of freedom. A ship without a rudder is free, and a train without tracks is free. Both are free to travel wherever they can go. But both cannot travel in the direction they really need to go, and they will surely end up in a terrible wreck.
Therefore freedom is not the right to do what we desire, but rather the desire to do what is right. This is the freedom we should be seeking for, and the good news is that we can have this freedom through the Lord Jesus Christ."
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Reference: 1 Corinthians 7:22
