Galatians 5:1, 13-25

Here, on the cusp of the celebration of Independence Day in the US, freedom is ever before us—freedom as an abstract, freedom as a concept. We believe in freedom, we claim. We fought for freedom; we sacrificed for freedom. It’s a powerful statement, a patriotic declaration. But it begs the question, freedom for what? Well, of course, our answer is usually something like anything we want! Except that doesn’t really work for those of us who have chosen to follow Christ. Of course, you can argue that when our wills are perfectly aligned with Christ’s then whatever we want is what he would want us to do. True, I can’t argue with that. But then, how aligned are we?