July 4th

  July fourth is a day where we celebrate the independence of this great nation of ours. On July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress. It declared that the 13 American colonies regarded themselves as a new nation, The United States of America, separate from the British Empire.

  What was to follow was seven years of hardship in war with England. The American Revolutionary War lasted from 1775 to 1783. Although many look to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown in 1781 as the end of the war; the truth is that it still dragged out for two more years.

  The struggle for our nation was not over at the moment we declared independence but merely started. Freedom was declared and then had to be fought for. It was won by God’s grace, and today we enjoy the many freedoms that men of the past have paid for with their lives.

  You see freedom is never free. It has a cost and many times the cost is great. We would be dreadfully failing the sacrifice of our forefathers by taking the freedom we have today for granted.

  I am also thankful for the fact that on this Fourth of July I not only have physical freedom, but I have spiritual freedom as well. I was saved at a very young age all because of the sacrifice of my Saviour, Jesus Christ, upon the cross of Cavalry. I am free from the law, from the curse of sin, and from the sting of death all because my Saviour paid for my sin debt upon the cross.

  Freedom is always paid for. Some freedoms you have to sacrifice and pay for yourself. Other freedoms people who have gone before us have paid for. The greatest freedom of all, salvation from sin and its curse, was paid for by a loving God. His Son has truly set us free indeed.

John 8:36 – “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”