Daily Devotions
June 28th, 2021 by Pastor SolleyActs 22:27-28 Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.
28 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.
KJV
This week we move toward Independence Day as the fourth of July will be this upcoming Sunday and I would like to speak of freedom and liberty this week in our devotions. What cost is freedom? We find that the chief captain in charge of Paul was a free man as was Paul, but there was a difference. That man paid a high price for his freedom while Paul was born free. Excluding Paul because I believe he knew what freedom cost at that time, most people born free have little idea of what freedom cost. The chief captain knew, he had to pay for his freedom. We live in a nation today in which there has been a very high price paid for freedom but most who have been born free have forgotten that. My namesake gave his life on the battlefield in WWII at just nineteen years of age. I have an uncle I still visit weekly who went off to war at just seventeen years of age, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, and was one of the first three Americans to cross into Germany. That generation knew the high cost of freedom as did the generations before them. But what of us, what of the current generations? Most today are willing to give up the freedoms our fathers and grandfathers gave their life for. Perhaps this week it would be good to get out the history books and read of what freedom cost. I can read of the very high price of freedom in the Bible, what it cost to make it possible to be free from sin and hell. (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.) It is good as well to take Bible in hand and read of the cost of freedom. I have been born free in America and I do not take that for granted and neither should you. I have also been born again into freedom in Jesus Christ and I do not take that for granted.