#Day 229: 17 August 2016, Wednesday

INDEPENDENCE

1 Peter 2:16 ESV - "Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God"

MERDEKA! Today is the 71st Indonesia's Independence Day! And what make this special is we managed to get 1 Olympic Gold Medal from Badminton Mixed Doubles!!

What a day, what a celebration.

The couple shown the meaning of freedom, the meaning of independence. They fought their fear, pressure and challenges. They are free from all of that! That makes them a champion.

What about our lives? What independence means to us? By knowing that Jesus have died to wash our sins (John 3:16). By knowing God is our father that we can call him Abba Father. What it independence means to us? To you?

Independence means freedom from outside control or support. I translate this as no influence from external factors. Which also means we are in full relation with Holy Spirit who lives in us.

So indeed, nothing stopping us to live as the servants of God.

There is nothing stopping us to work together with Holy Spirit, to produce this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
Galatians 5:22-23 NLT

There is nothing stopping us! So stop all the excuses and start doing!

#fgccmalaysia #uplifting #independence