By HIS Grace

This month is Black History month and I enjoy seeing the different memorials honoring historical African-American leaders and learning of their accomplishments.  I know that a big recognition of this, is the fact that the black people are no longer enslaved ... they have received their Freedom! And I am truly grateful for that, I am a beneficiary of it.  In this post I am going to reflect on freedom.  Not the type of freedom that was given to the slaves, although I don't take anything away from that and the presence that it has in our world today.  I'm going to reflect on the freedom that we receive from the lord ... a freedom that not only sets us free, but allows us to be clean and pure.  To be free of something, you first had to have been enslaved to it, held in bondage by it.  So many things can keep us bound; addictions, sinful behavior, mindsets and attitudes, personality traits, etc.  Some may agree that we have become enslaved to this "technology world" that w