Pastor's Reflection for the day

The amount of freedom in our spiritual self largely depends on our willingness to surrender freedom in our physical life. Freedom in our spiritual self is attained as we permit the power of God to reign supreme in our heart, mind, and soul in such a way as to guide every action and deed in which our physical being participates. When we are free in our spiritual self, our entire physical life is surrendered to the purpose of God. The freedom, peace and comfort that comes from this surrender increases proportional to the liberation of our spiritual self from all desires of our physical life to exercise our own free will except to be obedient to God. The dichotomy here is that as we surrender the freedom of our physical life, freedom in our spiritual self grows exponentially. To see the truth of this dichotomy expressed in its purest form -- look at the freedom attained for all humankind on the cross.