The Spirit of God is the Spirit of Freedom

Today I had to give an hour long presentation in my leadership class. We were supposed to read a book on leadership and then present it with a partner to the rest of the class. The book that I chose was The Founding Fathers on Leadership by Donald T. Phillips. As part of our presentation, we played a clip from the John Adams movie where the congress passed the resolution to declare independence and then it showed the declaration being read to and by the people. I know that this is not the kind of thing that gets discussed in the academic world, but I could feel the Spirit of God as we watched that clip and heard the words of the Declaration. Reading through the book about some of the events that took place during the American revolution, reaffirmed for me that God had his hand in the creating of this nation. There is no way we should have won that war. George Washington was going up against the strongest military power on earth at that time. The American troops were ill equipped, poorly trained, and few in number. Somehow they managed to gain victory. It is my firm conviction that without the aid of God, America's independence would never have been realized. The Spirit of God is the spirit of freedom. I don't know if you have ever had the opportunity to go to the archive building in Washington D.C. and have seen the Declaration and the Constitution of the United States. I have only been there once, but what an amazing experience. Standing in that rotunda, I felt such a strong spirit of peace and goodness. I know that God, our father is a champion of freedom. His son, Jesus Christ suffered and died so that we could one day be completely free. Free from the sting of death, free from the pain of sin, free from the hurts and troubles of our mortal existence. That freedom may not be immediate and it may not come in the way that we anticipate, but Christ can and will make us free. And in the meantime, God continues to spread freedom throughout the world. It may not happen as quickly as we would like, and we must do our part, but if we want to be truly free, we must rely on Him. During the constitutional convention, when disagreement threatened to tear the convention apart, Benjamin Franklin said this: "I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth- that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?" I truly believe that God does govern in the affairs of men. Let us turn to Him as we seek for freedom.