Freedom From Bad Definitions

Notes from Freedom Training 2017-04-07  – http://tdcounseling.com/

1. This step has to come first because otherwise one might end up chasing decoys.  it is very important to get started right !!!!
2. Research Prisoner Thinking vs Freedom Thinking.
3. Note: We are so wired for Freedom that all the spiritual world has to do is give us a Bad Definition of Freedom, if even so small, it still sends us off track.  Even a little off is not the Freedom Christ came to our realm for.
4. In Gen 3 the Devil Redefined the desire for appetite. (What is satisfaction).  There is gold in them thar hills too.

So what is Freedom ? Freedom is becoming the person you were created and designed to be. Freedom is the ability to act and react in life as the man or woman you were created to be.

Don’t pass this by too quickly. The sentence is short. The idea is even simple. It is the many counterfeits and decoys of freedom preoccupying us that cause us to bypass the true definition too quickly. So often, the things that prevent us from being ourselves go unrecognized. Freedom is never about our outward circumstances, it is always about becoming ourselves within our circumstances. The evidence of true freedom is when we can act and react without insecurity … without judgment … without fear … without rage … without selfishness … without codependency … the list goes on.
— Bob Hamp. (n.d.). Think Differently Live Differently.

There are two more steps but the end result looks like below. I will blog about these other two in other post.
– Freedom from Self.
– Freedom from Obstacles.

…  This is the target.

For sake of discussion lets say our lives rest on a fulcrum, leaning to the left we react in all sorts of odd ways, counterfeit to who we were designed to be, in my case decades of reacting to my world from light forms of irritation to rage. As we journey through this life towards the kind of Freedom that Jesus came for, via the Holy Spirit, our inner beings are healed.  Picture each of these places of unhealthiness a bubble in our souls.  Some of us have more bubbles, some of those bubbles have thicker walls etc etc.  But as time goes by they begin to fade away, some pop immediately, but no matter, over time there is less and less of these bubbles. At some point, there is enough of them gone our beings resting on this fulcrum begin to find a balance, then later the weight of it all begins to lean to the right side of the fulcrum. That is the point where our actions and reactions begin to come from a place of true inner Freedom.  This is the place where we begin to broadcast the true essence and nature of God to others which in its most basic form is Love. This is the place where the evidence from the first section above starts to take place.

It is a continual journey because future circumstances can cause injury and pain again, cause us to begin to lean to the left again…. Hopefully for only a short while.   That is why it’s a journey, not a destination you ever arrive at. You are no doubt, not Free until the weight of the your being on the fulcrum begins to at least even out, but especially as it leans to the right YOU ARE FREE INDEED!!!  Don’t fool yourself on this matter, Don’t accept a counter-fit.
–Me

A song about a fight Leisha and I once had before most of the above began to kick in.  Right before the balance on the fulcrum began to lean to the right.  She had become or it seemed to me “Ambivalent”.  It made me angry but even at that looking out of my eyes, looking through my bubbles I was wrong about her… yet again.