Friday, July 4, 2014

Free to Choose Liberty or Captivity

I saw a photo on Facebook that reminded me that 2 Nephi 2: 27 tells us that we "are free to choose liberty and Eternal Life... or to choose captivity and death." A few centuries ago, people fought and died to give us our freedom. We have it now, but what are we doing with it? Are we making choices that protect our freedom, or that threaten it?

Because I don't want to get too political (for once), I'm going to try to relate this back to spiritual things. Before the world was made, we fought to ensure that we would have the freedom to make choices for ourselves, but what choices are we making? Are we choosing "liberty and Eternal life through the great Mediator," or are we choosing "captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil?" We fought for the freedom to choose for ourselves, but are we still defending that freedom, or have we started to give it away?

Satan wants to enslave us and control us. He always has. We didn't let that happen before. Are we letting it happen now? Are we letting Satan's temptations manipulate us toward destruction, or are we letting God's commandments lead us toward even greater power and freedom? It's our decision to make, but if we make the wrong one, we may find that our freedom has been severely limited. "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled... with the yoke of bondage." Galatians 5:1

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