I suppose it is time to explain what the title of the blog means. Most people have a theme along which they explain themselves. Mine relates to being free of a human mentality that will prevent me reaching my full destiny. Well, destiny and the fullness thereof will not have the same meaning for everyone. Most people who think a bit will agree on this.
For one person who got through high school and college with an average pass mark, studied for a diploma or degree even and ran a reasonably good business or became a professional and reached retirement reasonably well off financially, this might sound like a good destiny. He/she operated within the bounds of what was expected and achieved what everyone thought they were capable of. He/she retired eventually into oblivion and nothing was left except memories captured on film and a forgotten tombstone in a lonely graveyard.
But what if that person failed at school, got caught up with the wrong crowd, broke through all the bounds of normal expectations, landed in jail for reckless living, messed up on all family relationships and eventually had no one left over to turn to except God and was found by Him? What if this person got divine revelation inside jail, could look into the soul of fellow-inmates, touch their broken hearts and help revive their dead spirits and could help them change permanently. What if that person could turn around so much that their lives would impact generations to come through their life story and he/she did not even know it? Yet that was her/his destiny?
Looking at destiny from a human viewpoint or a divine viewpoint throws a completely different perspective on the matter, does it not? So too with the concept of freedom. Some people have all the material goods they can desire together with the freedom to travel, socialize with whom they please and often say what they want, yet they are in prison. Others have been in jails and even in solitary confinement and are free whilst stuck between four walls.
The prophet Daniel was fed to hungry lions. He survived supernaturally because he was free before he went in there. He was free from the greatest fear of all, the fear of man, even if it was a king. Daniel was put before a choice, denounce your God and you will live. That was a crazy challenge to make to a man like him. His God was the God of life and Daniel knew that without Him he would really be dead, dead for all eternity. He also knew that his destiny was not in his own hands but it depended on God. All he had to do was to remain obedient to the will of God and his destiny would be fulfilled as it pleased God.
Our destiny in Xtreme Freedom Foundation is caught up into bringing dead souls to the living God. To know God intimately is to receive life and to know the truth. God is life and God is truth because God is love. Life, truth and love are inseparable as is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Jesus came to confirm this all when in the form man He took on all that is evil in us and died with it on the cross. While nailed to the cross, the crowds jeered and mocked because He did not free himself supernaturally. He could not because at that moment our bondage held Him captive to His destiny. Believing in what He did is the only requirement for extreme freedom. The degree in which we are prepared to follow Him is the degree in which we are made free. "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free". Truth here refers to Jesus whom people know and follow in degrees. In the belief system we call Christianity some people are soled out to Jesus while others are hoping to buy in. Some want and other will. Some do and others don't. It all revolves around obeying His instructions.
We are thankfully still learning and at the same time hoping. We are learning to obey and hoping to achieve that freedom that no human being by their own can attain. We are referring to that freedom that will love God and our fellow man without any bounds or limits. That's how God loves us in Jesus, with extreme freedom. Jesus went to the lepers of His time, we reach out to the lepers of our time, those who are inflicted with heroin, Tik and all the other bad stuff that comes along with drug addiction.
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