So I don’t really know what this blog is going to be about. I guess I just feel like I have been learning a lot lately, and I feel like this could be a really easy way to express my thoughts and write down what I learn or find interesting. This blog may not even last because I’ve definitely started several blogs that I usually stopped keeping up with by the end of the first month. So yeah I guess I’ll see what happens. But either way this is my first official post of my blog! Yay!

All throughout this semester God has been teaching me a lot about sin. But not just sin. Actually he  has been teaching me more about freedom. Freedom from sin. Freedom from the bondage and chains of sin.

“I Am Set Free” by All Sons and Daughters has kind of been my theme song this semester.

The first line starts out saying:

“You broke my chains of sin and shame and you covered me with grace”

Until this semester I had never thought about my sin enslaving me. But God brought to my mind some painful memories of the past. Not to rub it in my face. No I think he brought these memories to my mind to show me his grace and to show me how he brought me out of those tough times when I was actually enslaved to my own sin. I hated this sin, but it became so big that it began to control me. control my thoughts. control my actions. As much as I didn’t want to keep living in this sin, I couldn’t stop. I knew it was wrong, but I couldn’t conquer this sin. At least not on my own.

That’s where Christ stepped in. He brought me out of sin. Out of slavery and into his arms. He brought me into freedom. Romans 6:14 says “For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace”

Although I knew that God forgives all sins, this year I realized that I never really let go of that sin that I was enslaved to in high school. God brought back those memories so that I could fully let go of that shame and be redeemed in Christ. I’ve experienced freedom like I never have before. Freedom from bondage. Freedom from my past. Freedom from this world.

“It for for freedom that I am set free”-All Sons and Daughters