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We have been considering the idea of freedom this month. We have spoken about the fact that God created us for freedom, and not for bondage. That He has not only created us for freedom, but has given us a pathway to freedom.

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July the 4th is a fun day for many. It is a holiday and it is known for family, fireworks, travel, picnics, and swimming. It is a time we look forward to resting, relaxing and in spending time with friends and family. But it is a holiday that we would do well to consider for a moment. Our Father God has blessed us incredibly. For those of us who have been in countries where personal freedoms are not so regularly protected, living the United States of America can quickly become under-appreciated.

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When I was a child, I only knew my earthly father through a very limited set of understandings. I knew he kept me safe and I knew he loved me. As I grew, I grew to know more about him. He was consistent, he was strong. I grew to understand that he loved me enough to discipline me and to lead me to make good decisions. As I grew older, I grew to appreciate his mind, skills, talents and ability to lead.

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God is our good Father. It is difficult for us to understand this fully, to be sure. As with anything, we have only our personal life experience to make sense of things we try to understand. God is largely unknowable to us, especially in our current reality. We have only existed for a blink of time. We have only experienced a wisp of all there is to experience. We have only a minuscule fraction of knowledge compared to all there is to know. We have such limited capacity to understand all there is to understand.

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Words are used to build peace and to cause destruction. They are the primary way we communicate all of our emotions. They convey culture and control government. They bind together and they rip apart. They guide and they lead astray.

“Follow me.” Probably the most concise, simple and understandable messages we could get from God. What makes this such a seemingly difficult concept for us to accomplish then? Today, in our next look at Response, we will revisit the calling and the responses of some of those who were specifically called by Christ.

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If our kids would just learn, truly, to just hear carefully and then obey completely, their lives would be so much better, so much faster. I am quite certain that this sentiment is exactly what our spiritual Father believes as well. Why we would ever, as thinking beings, think that ignoring the voice of our God is a good thing to do, should be beyond us.

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