Not everything is as you think it is

Ann Voskamp reminds us that not everything is as you think it is.

You can have in your possession an actual declaration of freedom — and not actually value it.

You can hold in your hands something valuable enough that it could change everything about your life — and you could send it right out of your life.

...It’s time to check behind the cheap frame of things — because it turns out:

A life of faith may not be what what you think — or what most people live.

It’s infinitely more.

...And there is a Freedom that rings and won’t be silenced — freedom that calls out the false freedom that a man can do whatever he likes, and rings of the true freedom — that gives a man the freedom to do what is right.

Freedom that grace can be found and hope rises here and this life of faith is infinitely more freedom, a world of higher up and deeper in.

The greatest freedom we have is the freedom to come right to God at any time.

There under the bloom of fireworks, you can feel it —

the love of Christ exploding a heart —

the way a people can live a declaration of independence from all else and breathe the freedom of dependence in the One who explodes grace across all our skies.

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