Today I want to talk about freedom. Sometimes in life we have a false understanding of what freedom actually means. Am I free to do whatever I want to do whenever I want to do it? Or does true freedom come at a cost? We all want freedom in our government, we don't want to be tied down by too many rules that makes us unable to live life in an ordinary way. We want the freedom to make the right choices for our lives and for the lives of our children. But the question to ask is who guarantees our freedom? If we live in a country with man-made government who runs the government? Where are our checks and balances as Canadian citizens? We put people in power to protect us and to protect our nation. We have laws and guidelines in which our society runs and we are to obey those laws. There has been some talk about lawlessness these days but what just defines lawlessness? In the Bible lawlessness is described as sin. But surely our society is not a lawless society in fact we have laws in place which guarantee that it will never become a lawless society.
Deconstructionists say that man should be free and should be able to do whatever he wants to do whenever he wants to do it. When a man is free to do whatever he wants to do he eventually becomes a slave, a slave to sin and a slave to others. The Bible says that there is a way that seems right unto a man but it's end is death. Who gives us the thought that we are free to do whatever we want to do whenever we want to do it? I will not answer that question in this blog. What I want to talk about is what is true freedom? True freedom means that I'm able to express myself no matter what the consequences are so long as they don't hurt another person. Some would say we have lost this right in our country but our constitutional rights as far as I know are still in place. When I was growing up you would hear of communism and Utopia and somehow you knew that if we were to create a perfect society you would somehow reflect the genocidal society of Germany during the Nazi era. Even as a child I knew that utopia was a far-fetched dream never to be realized.
In one of my classes during my years in grade school there was a poster that always sat behind me on the wall. It was a futuristic looking poster depicting somewhat of a scene from the Wizard of Oz in the title that was on the poster was the 21st-century. It pictured the 21st-century a somewhat of an unknown future. Not that anything was possible but that's something was possible but we just didn't know what it was yet. Now that we live in the postmodern world the picture that I saw behind me on the wall in my grade school class seems to be revealing something of a mystery that I never dreamed would be possible. How has the 21st-century turned out to be so far? That's a trick question!
Nothing has really change in human nature sure the world has become more politically correct but human beings ultimately are still the same down deep inside. We have more rules to keep our society moving along but sometimes I look back to when I was a kid and I can honestly say that I was a much more freer human being that I am now living in the 21st-century. And that's exactly what freedom is, not necessarily freedom from government but freedom from the continuous thought that there is no more spontaneity like it used to be. I'm not saying spontaneity is the answer but we used to be so much more involved in each others lives than we are now, in an authentic way.
I don't really miss anything about the 20th century because I still have full hope for this generation. Sure some things have changed but humans will always be humans and for that I am grateful.
Deconstructionists say that man should be free and should be able to do whatever he wants to do whenever he wants to do it. When a man is free to do whatever he wants to do he eventually becomes a slave, a slave to sin and a slave to others. The Bible says that there is a way that seems right unto a man but it's end is death. Who gives us the thought that we are free to do whatever we want to do whenever we want to do it? I will not answer that question in this blog. What I want to talk about is what is true freedom? True freedom means that I'm able to express myself no matter what the consequences are so long as they don't hurt another person. Some would say we have lost this right in our country but our constitutional rights as far as I know are still in place. When I was growing up you would hear of communism and Utopia and somehow you knew that if we were to create a perfect society you would somehow reflect the genocidal society of Germany during the Nazi era. Even as a child I knew that utopia was a far-fetched dream never to be realized.
In one of my classes during my years in grade school there was a poster that always sat behind me on the wall. It was a futuristic looking poster depicting somewhat of a scene from the Wizard of Oz in the title that was on the poster was the 21st-century. It pictured the 21st-century a somewhat of an unknown future. Not that anything was possible but that's something was possible but we just didn't know what it was yet. Now that we live in the postmodern world the picture that I saw behind me on the wall in my grade school class seems to be revealing something of a mystery that I never dreamed would be possible. How has the 21st-century turned out to be so far? That's a trick question!
Nothing has really change in human nature sure the world has become more politically correct but human beings ultimately are still the same down deep inside. We have more rules to keep our society moving along but sometimes I look back to when I was a kid and I can honestly say that I was a much more freer human being that I am now living in the 21st-century. And that's exactly what freedom is, not necessarily freedom from government but freedom from the continuous thought that there is no more spontaneity like it used to be. I'm not saying spontaneity is the answer but we used to be so much more involved in each others lives than we are now, in an authentic way.
I don't really miss anything about the 20th century because I still have full hope for this generation. Sure some things have changed but humans will always be humans and for that I am grateful.
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