I Am Free

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So the next one in my 3-part series of my look at the Newsboys continues with my all-time favorite worship song. "I Am Free." While not just a Newsboys song, they do perform it a lot, and the first time I ever heard the song was by them, so it counts.




This song means so much to me. The message of the song is simple, yet there is such a deep meaning.

I am free to run/ I am free to dance/ I am free to LIVE for you/ I am free

There is so many times that I will sit through an evangelistic event and I will hear the Evangelist say these word's. "Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, or else you will spend eternity in Hell." It is also all over the billboards everywhere. "ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST, OR REGRET IT FOREVER!" Now, I am in no place to judge, because they are right, it does say in the Bible that Jesus "is the way, the truth and the light." There is no denying that. However, what FRUSTRATES ME TO NO EARTHLY END is one simple thing.

THERE IS MUCH MORE TO BECOMING A CHRISTIAN THAN NOT GOING TO HELL!!!!!!!

You see, something that people don't understand, is that, when we accept Jesus Christ in our life and decide to follow him, it changes people. I've seen it, and I'm sure you have seen it yourself. And I'm not just meaning when one immediately says "I'm a Christian" that all their troubles go away. That's simply not true. It's about living and following God.

What's interesting, in the Gospel's, Jesus talks about heaven and hell, it is true. However, he spends much more time talking about how to live your life, not what happens after death! Jesus died for us, so we could be free to live for him. That is what the song is about. Even the first verse (through you the blind will see, through you the mute will sing/ etc...) describes how, when one follows God and devotes their life to him, they LIVE for him. Not die!

Some Christians only talk about the aspect of knowing "where you will spend eternity." That is part of it, but not the only part! If I'm an Atheist or an Agnostic, I'm asking myself "Why would I want to follow a God who only affects me after death? Why would I want to follow a God that I am just fearing because I am afraid he will send me to hell?" Now, the inconvenient truth is, we must still fear God, but fear does not equal scared. Feared equals respected. God does not want us to be afraid of him, he wants our respect, our admiration, our worship. He wants to walk with us, and help us out in life's problems. THAT IS WHERE THE FREEDOM COMES FROM!!!

Freedom in God is just like Peter Furler says in the video "Freedom in your head, Freedom in your heart, Freedom in your emotions, Freedom in your marriage...it only comes through the blood, through the word, through the church, through the purpose of God, and the price? THE PRICE HAS BEEN PAID!!!!"

John 8:36 says "So if the son sets you free, you will be free indeed."

If you accept Jesus Christ into your heart, and you follow him, and I mean FOLLOW him. Live your life the best you can the way he says to, I can personal say you will be set free. I'm not perfect, and I know I don't have a perfect life. However, I have a God I can turn to for help, whose word I can turn to when the going gets tough, who I can pray to for guidance, where I don't have to worry about what will come, but knowing that God is with me through it all. I know he has set me free.

So I invite you, to examine your life. Do you feel stressed out, burdened? Feel like you need a freedom? Accept Jesus, not just because you can spend eternity with him in heaven, but because you will have someone there for you always, who will set you free from your burdens in your life. And the price? THE PRICE HAS BEEN PAID!!!