BOB PEDEN
Good morning, this is Bob Peden of Central United Methodist Church. Are you free? We Americans make much of our freedom and assume
that it is our circumstances that determine whether we are free or not.
A prisoner in the notorious Dachau concentration camp in Nazi ruled Germany, left these words scrawled on the wall of a cell. "Leave me here
freely all alone
In cell where never sunlight shone, should no one ever speak to me this golden silence makes me free." This man, locked away in the deepest
darkest parts of a miserable place where there was noone with whom to converse, knew that his freedom depended not on his circumstances
but upon his spirit.
As Christians we, too, should know that it is God, not our circumstances, who makes us free. And God frees us not from our circumstances but
within our situation. Should we never see the light of day or hear another human voice, we are free in the golden silence and the brilliant
darkness. May you choose freedom today.
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