Liquefied, Liquidated, Liberated!
Written on September 2, 2011
Liquified, Liquidated, Liberated!
We have just passed into the threshold so many are seeking: liberated in the sale of a home in this economy! It did not happen overnight, and up until yesterday double issues, double bills were tying us to two states, two towns, two locations.
This layering off is good, a rightness to the soul. In a few short hours, clarity and focus for new life in VA was sharpening. Praise music in the background was adhering. It was good, a rightness to the soul.
“Therefore stand fast in the liberty by which Christ has made us free; and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage” (Gal 5:1) When the difference between liberty and bondage is so clear, who would want to be shackled again?
The physical states of matter come into play with being liberated of chains in ourselves to this earth. Paul no longer saw himself in a solid state: “I am already being poured out as an offering…” (2 Tim 4:6). Suffering and relinquishing our rights to life leads to this: “I am poured out like water; and all My bones are out of joint; My heart is melted like wax; it has melted within Me” (Ps 22:14). Pouring can be absorbed by others. Without pouring we would not have known the beauty of pourings: the woman’s flask of perfume over the head of Jesus (Mt 26:7; Mk 14:3), the pouring of the blood of Jesus, the pouring forth of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:17, 18, 33; Titus 3:6).
More than we know, we all have encumbrances from desired liberty. James 5 warns us ”above all” to resist oaths, and think of the 100’s of documents in files that bear our dated signatures!!
We cannot be relinquished of these encumbrances overnight, but it is a worthy pursuit. Let us seek the simplicity of a life that can become a life poured out.
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