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Wow!  I just had another one of those Aha! moments.  (I say “another”, because I also had one of those moments last Wednesday night during Bible Study as the Pastor was teaching.  If you miss Bible Study night,you miss a lot!)

You know the feeling of Aha!…the dawning of truth, a revelation hits your mind when you are not expecting it.  It’s a sensation like when a curtain suddenly opens and a beautiful truth, like a breathtaking landscape, is laid out before you!

 This time it happened as I was listening to the Adult Bible lesson Sunday morning in church.  It was part of a series being taught on “Creation”.  At one point in the lesson Pastor brought out that God created everything, including the angels.  The scriptures about Lucifer, son of the morning, were read depicting how beautiful and powerful he was until…there’s that word “until”, it’s the point where something changes.  And something did change, and change drastically!

Lucifer let pride come in and take control, he was most the beautiful angel and had been granted a lot of power.  His beauty became his god and he decided he could be God.  God is not plural.  There is only one God.  So there was war in the heavenlies. One third of the angels fought alongside Lucifer.  Of course, God and His angels won and God cast Lucifer, and the angels who fought with him, out of heaven.  Lucifer is now commonly called the devil.

So, you wonder… what is the Aha! moment?  I was thinking…people seem more possessed than ever about being beautiful.  Just think about the fashion magazines, the botox movement, plastic surgery…are you getting that Aha! feeling yet?  There is more than marketing, money and coincidence behind it all.  There is a spirit pushing it.  The same spirit that Lucifer fathered in Heaven is the same spirit trying to push pride on all of us.  The world is embracing and flaunting this destructive lifestyle of bondage. The devil is trying to trap even our young children, with the media in the lead, through constant pressure from every side.

I pray God will keep us all from falling into this trap.  I am praying especially for children and teens.  There is so much freedom in Christ, I want this freedom for them.  God has not called us to bondage.  It is bondage to feel like you have to follow the latest fashion fad, have flawless skin and be skinny to be accepted.  Because the great majority of people can’t live up to that, it fosters low self-esteem (which is simply pride turned inside-out…my definition) and a feeling of being left out if you do not look like the latest idol. (Last time I checked we weren’t supposed to look at or follow idols…!)

Let’s shake ourselves and take a look, not at ourselves but at the great, awesome God we serve!  Freedom is when we find our worth in Jesus Christ.  Then we are totally free from the bondage of this world and nothing can shake us. 

True freedom, by the way, is not doing everything we want to do.  It is not having to follow what this flesh begs to do but being able instead, to follow the Spirit of God!

That’s walking in the Spirit. That’s true freedom!

I thank the Lord for my Aha! moments!  Have you had one lately?  If so share it and encourage someone in the Lord. 

Check out Romans 8…it’s a great read!