Sat, Mar 10th - 9:34AM

FREEDOM......REALLY?

Can freedom be truely realized and understood if you have never known captivity? Is it possible to shout, to rejoice for the breath of life if you never knew you were dead? Can you sing the song of redemption if you never knew you were enslaved?

I have known captivity.......I have known death......I have known enslavement. I remember the stench of death and the darkness that surrounded me. Tears fell from my broken heart as I tried to figure out how I had ended up in such an awful place. Around me, I could hear others crying but I could not see them, I could not  care about them.

Another drag of my cigarette, another shot of vodka.....maybe another joint or a pill. Maybe I just end it all, nothing left to lose. Will anyone miss me, will anyone care?

Then.........God speaks and in an instant the room is filled with light. In a moment, death flees. Tears continue to fall but they are not bitter. In a single strike of time, I became free.

Yeah, I remember and I rejoice.

Do you remember that upon your head was the same death sentence? Perhaps you never knew the depths of sin like I did, perhaps you have always been a good person. Still, without God's compassionate love and mercy, you were still just as dead.

Rejoice....and again I say rejoice.