What is freedom? There are many incomplete or even false views of freedom. There is the anarchist view according to which freedom is the right and power to do as you like, to let yourself go, to be free from every control.

There is another view, the liberal, which rejects any truth or law binding on all; it permits each one to be law unto himself and herself.

There is a third, the existentialist, according to which you are free only when your action has no other goal than the demonstration of your own freedom.

And a fourth, the true view, which describes freedom as the inner power of a person to put himself and herself at the service of what is good, a power that is roused and guided by its own insight into and evaluation of the good. More simply, it is the power to seek what you see is truly good for you. It reaches its highest degree when it allows itself to be led entirely by the Spirit of God which leads only to what is absolutely good. It is the freedom of the children of God.

True freedom involves a double freedom, 'freedom from' and 'freedom for'. 'Freedom from' means freedom from internal inhibiting factors like fear, compulsion, prejudice, inordinate passions, all of which paralyse the will, imprison it; or from external deterrent like human respect, adverse criticism, group pressures, majority opinions. 'Freedom for' means the power to make personal responsible choices to say 'I want this because I like it, because I see it is good for me.'

Be truly free..... What must one do to become truly free?...

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -