A Holy Paradox

Today, many people often think of freedom “as the maximum  ability to choose whatever life I want to live with a minimum of external attachments or restrictions”.  No single word resonates with Americans and millions of others quite like freedom.  We value freedom from, but rarely do we consider what freedom is for. When we think of it at all, we tend to think we have been freed for doing anything we want. Freedom is also found throughout Scripture and Christian tradition. At the very heart of the Christian gospel is the strange truth that real freedom is found only in giving up everything secular culture touts as freedom.  In Galatians 5, the Apostle Paul tells us what true freedom really is.