Declare Freedom

as children of God to whom the Word has declared victory, we often wonder why our circumstances even exist.

wouldn't it all be perfect, simply if there was no opposition in our lives, such that things went exactly and solely the way we wanted it to?

i don't know if anyone else has, but i sure have thought that way.

or perhaps, why we should even bother to change and move towards the life that Christ has redeemed for us - as in, what's wrong with the way that we live now?

it occurred to me a week or so back that perhaps trials, problems happen to give us a reason.

let me explain myself, imagine a prison, and a prisoner standing within, with the key.

the odd thing that should probably occur to one would be - if he has the key, why is he still in there?

but in some sense, are we the same?

Prisoners, holding the key to freedom within our prison cells but simply having no reason to get out.

i'm not justifying or seeking to explain why negative stuff happen in some peoples' lives, but maybe, we could change our perspectives some, and see things as an opportunity, a reason to use the keys freely given to us in Christ.