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"When freedom comes we have to go on the journey with God to help us discover what it means to live the free life."
As quoted from the book "Victor - Breaking Free From a Victim-Based Society" by John H. Hovis Page 46.
Live is a journey towards greater and greater freedom when it comes to those living the victor’s life. We are victors because of the freedom Christ purchased for us on the cross not because we feel like we aren’t under the attack of bondage. Understanding and living out that freedom is a process that victors learn by living in this world filled with bondage of one type and another.
Today’s Bible reading is key to living like a victor.
What I am saying is that as long as an heir is underage, he is no different from a slave, although he owns the whole estate. The heir is subject to guardians and trustees until the time set by his father. Galatians 4:1-2 (NIV)
No one wants to think of themselves as slaves. Nothing can be more tragic and victimizing than the thought that someone or something else can “own” you. Reality is that we all are slaves to something or another in this world. The way I read today’s Bible verse, we will remain slaves of one kind or another until the fullness of time is achieved in God’s eyes, or we pass from this life into the next.
Along the way though we are taken on a journey where slavery is replaced with a greater and greater realization of the heirship we are offered as Children of the King. That’s the journey all victors are on.
That’s where it gets dangerous for the victor to let their current circumstances affect their identities. At this moment your circumstances might be such that you look like and feel like a slave. Today’s reading is clear - though you might be a slave you are still heir to the entire Kingdom of God!
Freedom, particularly complete freedom in Christ is a journey. It is a process by which God is breaking the chains of this world to bring us into a greater realization that we are His Children and, thereby heirs to all He has and all He is.
Why does He take us on this journey? Why doesn’t He just give it all to us now? For the same reason you don’t give your 2 year old child a million dollars. They wouldn’t know how to handle it without first going on the journey with you to maturity.
Do you feel like a slave today? Is victim thinking creeping in because of that trapped feeling? Maybe today is your day for another step in the journey of freedom. Maybe you are about to receive another dose of heirship in your life that will break off those chains for good. Either way, you are a victor whether the chains are broken or not. You are God’s Child and that makes you free no matter what your circumstances dictate.
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