I'm Free as a Bird

First of all, I love the song Free Bird. I love the imagery of the freedom that birds offer. They don't stay in one place too long and when they soar it is the picture of a free spirit. A bird could not soar in the sky if they had a bunch of extra baggage or weight to them. They are free.

I am a mess. I realize this about myself. I'm emotional, I think too much into things, and I'm pretty high energy in general. Something I am learning and have come to realize is that God is strong enough to handle me. In recognizing this, it frees me to simply come as I am to the Lord. Nothing I say to Him is going to shock or surprise Him, there is nothing I tell Him that He can't handle. I don't have to sugar coat things I tell Him. I have gotten into the habit of that before instead of just laying it out there. But recently I have learned what freedom comes with being completely transparent before Him. It's okay to come to come to Him just as I am. I don't have to worry about how things are going to come across to Him, for no one can measure the depths of His understanding; in Him there is no condemnation but an infinite flow of love and compassion. He can handle it. He can handle me.


"In Him and through faith in Him we may approach God with freedom and confidence" Ephesians 3:12

I've also realized that I am free to come to Him in pieces. And He wants every last piece of me...although I hang on desperately to some pieces, I'm beginning to see the joy that comes along with surrender. In this surrender I'm seeing who I truly am in Him and this revelation simply makes my heart soar and sets my feet to dancing. He wants ALL of me even the ugliest pieces of my life after all, He can beautify any mess I've created in my life.All I have to do is show up.

This Holy freedom is not something I can work towards, however. It is something that He does in and through us. If we could free ourselves from bondage we would've had no need for a Savior. How incredibly humbling it is that the Creator of the Universe would chose to come and set us free from all that entangles us and separates us from Him. Galations 5:1 says that "it is for freedom that Christ has set us free". The yoke of sin has been removed, the chains are gone, we are no longer in bondage. We have been given a freedom to live for Him and free to BE with Him.

But I so willingly place myself back in the bondage I've been freed from. I find myself caught up in the same mind traps and stumbling as I put these chains back on. Why do I do this? Because it's comfortable. Because I'm scared to take risks. Because I fail in trusting the freedom I've been given. This sin we find ourselves bound to is what we were born into, not what we were created for. We were created to belong to Him. We were created to be free. The more I learn about Him, the more I realize the humanness of me and the divinity that He is, the more I learn how much I need to be freed from and realizing that that freedom is mine. What a beautiful gift.

In Him I'm finding who I truly am.
In Him I find freedom
In Him I find Reckless Abandon

"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom" 2 Corinthians 3:17