If You Could Live Anywhere...

If you could live anywhere you wanted, where would you live? If you had your choice of a charming cottage by the sea, or home by a lake, or a houseboat on a river, or a beach house or even life in a mansion, what would you choose? How about a more comfortable choice, what if you could continue your life as it was, but could from now on you live inside a living God? 
Think about it. Do not just laugh and go to another website, really think about it. Living inside of a God. How safe would that be? How comfortable could God make guests? How well cared for you would be. Having just what you want, nothing less...
Life inside a living God, sounded wonderful unless you realized you are already there getting just what your actions, words, emotions, and thoughts have been shouting out loud you want, instead of asking for the good stuff.
Now hold on. Weren't you the one that cried for no significant reason. Wasn't it you that shouted! Didn't you get angry and annoyed on account of things that did not even cost much to fix or replace or do over... weren't you the one that didn't think to give away stuff to help others right? Didn't you fail to give to that good charity's outreach? Weren't you the one laughing at how stupid some peoples choices are? Aren't you the one that thought everyone should take care of themselves and get off the welfare roll?
In doing none of this, you must have someway said to the devil, "I am not one of God's loving children." Weren't you saying to the devil, "Satan, do as you want with me," in word or deed...
So, you didn't mean to do that. You didn't want to be one of the devil's toys. You did not intend to let Satan be your master instead of God. Guess what? There's hope for you then.
If you are not deliberately one of the devil's own, then there's a good chance God has not signed your title over to the devil. God may hold out the chance you may come to your senses yet and return home to your Heavenly Father's Kingdom in His Creation with life in HIm and with Him always there.
Life in God, as good as it gets. You already may know what life, not inside the living invisible God is like...He is right where you are. Go ahead, say hello. Start the relationship, and God will be moved to do something to acknowledge the difference, if not even say hi back! He is a living God, after all...

A Guiding Light!

Like any tool, a flashlight helps one do things. It helps you find your way when the light blows out in the basement or garage. It helps you walk outside in the dark and be seen by traffic. It helps you find your key in the dark outside your door.
Liberty too is a guiding light as much as the Statue of Liberty's torch in New York Harbor that lit the way to freedom for countless immigrants to the United States. Liberty is mentioned in the Bible more than once. My favorite is in the Letter of James in the New Testament. Sometimes translated freedom it is mentioned as the law we are to behave as judged by ultimately. Not the Ten Commandments or the entire Jewish code of diet and festivals and relationships in marriage, but the law of perfect liberty.
Liberty can guide you on how to lead a life free from guilt by being at liberty to perform any harmless act only and have a conscious clear of bloodshed or injury to others. Some would take their liberty to mean they can do as they please, forgetting that means they are at liberty to get in a whole lot of trouble and feel rather bad if they have any sense of fair play. The Apostle Paul warns to be blameless as well as harmless. That is good advice to keep from messy legal entanglements.
Some would have us stop the following of Sin and follow them or their leader, even Jesus is offered as the new leader, but if one is ever going to grow up and be a child of God too one cannot follow around one's oldest brother all the time and needs a guiding light of one's own!
So one can live one's life playing Simon says with lawgivers or follow the leader with a revered figure or one can start growing up and learn to bear a torch for your harmless liberty and set yourself free. It seems not many are willing to take someone to freedom.