Ode to Pursuing Freedom

 In Spiritual Remembrance: America’s 4^th of July Celebration and Establishment 

By Edna Robinson.

Early century Europeans weighed life’s situations under the appalling conditions and demands of the physical king and his controlling religious leaders and desired to find a better way of living.  For millennia, the repeated scenario in various empires, nations, and tribes only allowed a few inhabitants to live free and prosperous lives, while the rest made diligent attempts to gain necessary resources to sustain life or lived in complete poverty. 

By the 16^th century, the Bible became more accessible to the general population, and some Christians believed God was calling them out of the king’s domain.  Therefore, migration from Europe began with many Christians of varying denominations seeking the New World for a new way to live. 

Although, as history indicates, New World arrivals were unsure of how to fully implement the new way of living as encouraged from the Bible, which informs live in the Spirit or according to the spiritual ways of God.  However, by the 18^th century (1700s) various leading American citizens gained further knowledge that brought forth guidelines to establish the nation without Old-World demands to birth the New World as land of the free.  But, as more Europeans populated America, many held onto Old-World thinking and ways.

“If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed” (John 8:36).

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit” (Galatians 5:25).

Freedom Land by Edna Robinson (Excerpt)

Those men of old though brave and bold found novel lands long ago to behold God’s Righteous Plan. 

The land they found was vast and wide and occupied by many tribes.  Though not deterred, they settled the land, but many forgot God’s Righteous Plan. 

Free to think, free to decide, free to act, free to pursue, and free to live God’s Righteous Plan in lands anew that set the course for lives renewed.

Those men of old though brave and bold were forewarned long ago, if you forget God’s Righteous Plan, then foolish men will rise in the land and take control with grievous holds.  They would enslave as kings to restrain their captives. 

No freedom to think nor to decide; no freedom to act nor to pursue.  No freedom to live God’s Righteous Plan as freemen in the land.

Those men of old though brave and bold many died and many enslaved, but God’s Righteous Plan did take hold to guide us all to live our lives in freedom.