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Our Quote for Today:

"It's not about being delivered.  It's about the Deliverer!"
 
On this Independence weekend, we have so enjoyed our freedom in America and our freedom found only IN Christ.  Both freedoms are a gift from God.  We are truly fortunate people indeed.  If we did not behave that way this weekend, shame on us.  But fortunate we are, whether we meditate and appreciate it or not!
 
Why are we so fortunate?  It is because we have been delivered!  In America, we have been delivered from the tyranny of a former ruler.  The very words of our original thirteen colonies declared in our "Declaration of Independence" from Britain these words declaring our absolute delivery from tyranny!

"Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. . ."

Though the pain of these earliest of Americans citizens is surely lost on most all of our countryman, it doesn't change the fact that our good fortunes are so valuable that no one in the whole wide world, save another fellow American, is as fortunate as we! 
 
We ought also to be thankful for our freedom in Christ.  For in that freedom we have been saved from the tyranny of the devil.  Where would your life be without America and its freedom?  What would your life be like without Christ and His freedom? 
 
Life is good.  But still, though our life has been delivered, it has not been so delivered that we should honor our delivery.  But rather it is our DELIVERER that should be honored and He should be honored for His delivery! 
 
"For me to live IS Christ."  If you are alive and free today, IS Christ?  Or does He lie dormant in your spirit bound by your unwillingness to give Him access to the life He bled and died for? 

Independence from my former dependence is not for me to live it up.  It's for Him to live it out!    

Have a wonderful day IN the Lord!

Steven Curington