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Skrevet af Jørn Nielsen   
Lørdag, 25. februar 2012 02:06



In my country we sometimes talk about being "a free bird" which usually means a person not tied up with anything.  But it´s one thing to talk about personal freedom, it´s a different matter to live in that freedom.  Søren Kierkegaard accused the popular philosopher Hegel of building a big philosophical house for others without being able to live in it himself.  That is not freedom.

One morning at this treatment centre (from which I´ll be "released" next week) I was in my Bible reading charmed and enthused when I read the word "He...shall let the living bird loose in the open field"  (Lev. 14:7) and again "He shall let the living bird loose outside the city in the open field..."  (v.53).

There were actually two birds if you care to read the context.  One was killed and had it blood shed portraying the precious blood of Christ.  The other bird dipped in that blood was let loose and flew in freedom out in the open - a picture of a free, redeemed child of God.

On the virtue of the blood  of Christ I´m right here, and you are right there, as a free bird with wings of faith meant to "fly" into the open, never to forget why you are "flying", namely because of "the precious blood of Christ"  (1 Pet. 1:19).

One of my co-patients asked me, "Honestly, have you always been a good person?" I hastened to tell her, "No, indeed not, but Jesus died for my sins!" I explained to her that gospel truth.  She said after a couple of days, "You gave me something to think about!"  Till then she opposed any idea of God and the Bible.

You and I are not supposed to do a lot of "preaching" to our fellow men.  Don´t get me wrong, of course "the foolishness of preaching" comes in.  But in the first place we are not supposed to "witness" but to be His witnesses!  Acts 1:8.

So fly out in the open, so to speak, - the open field is watching you and is wondering what that free bird is about!

Febr. 24, 2012 – jn

 
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