FREEDOM,
FIGHTING FOR

ONE OF the great contradictions of the Revolutionary War was that men fought long and hard to be free. They risked their lives that they might be removed from the tyranny of England and enjoy the wonders of freedom in what would be the United States of America. The irony, however, is that the very men who fought for freedom endorsed slavery and owned slaves. Freemen owning slaves—there’s a contradiction there somewhere. So cataclysmic was the reality of slavery that it became one of the primary reasons for a civil war.

You see, when you find freedom you ought to offer it to other folks too. When you’ve discovered that you’ve been made free, then slavery ought not to be part of your vocabulary. What was true of the Revolutionary War is also true for us.

Freedom is worth fighting for; freedom is worth risking your life for. There’s nothing like being free. When you find it for yourself, don’t hold other folks in slavery.334

[Double-mindedness]

Luke 4:18; 1 Peter 2:16