New hope. Why do we need it. If we what new hope doesn't that mean that we already have hope? But there are good reasons for wanting new hope. You lost your job, or your wife has cancer. There are a million different reasons for new hope or should I say renewed hope. God is the giver of life and he wants every single one of us to have it to the fullest. God is life, and He is lives in ultimate freedom. That's why He wants us to have life because He has it and He wants us to be just like Him. Free in every way.
When I was just a little kid, maybe seven or eight years old, my brother and sister and I would go out into this woods. Armed with butter knives and rope we would strike out on an adventure. This was a hunt. Our goal was to find a dear, kill the dear, and make a meal out of him. We set out marching to the woods laughing and all telling what we thought was going to happen when we found the dear. Well, needless to say, we never found a dear, but we were not going to be denied. We marched back home and went into the garden. There playing in the dirt, having all kinds of fun we found it. The biggest and greenest tomato worm you have ever seen. Armed with our butter knives we began the hunt. Well, it was more like a, lets stab it kind of a thing, but you get the idea.
That day we were the explorers of a new world, great Indian hunters, soldiers in the army, we were free. Free to live life to the fullest and to love every gooey green moment of it. Freedom is what God wants for all of us. Freedom from your past, freedom from the hurts in your life, freedom from sin and shame. The nagging emptiness in your gut screams for freedom. And as William Wallis said in the movie Brave Heart, "All men die, few ever truly live". Freedom is life.
So, are you free?
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