In honor of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, I thought it would be cool to share a story I heard about him from a dear friend. This is an excerpt from Dr. Steve Brown's book "A Scandalous Freedom."
"You are Free! You can do right or wrong. You can obey or disobey. You can run from Christ or run to Christ. You can choose to become a faithful Christian or an unfaithful Christian. You can cry, cuss, and spit, or laugh, sing and dance. You can read a novel or the Bible. You can watch television or pray. You're free...really free.
Abraham Lincoln went to a slave market. There he noted a young, beautiful African-American woman being auctioned off to the highest offer. He bid on her and won. He could see the anger in the young woman's eyes and could imagine what she was thinking, Another white man who will buy me, use me, and then discard me.
As Lincoln walked off with his "property" he turned to the woman and said, "You're free." "Yeah. What does that mean?" she replied. "It means you are free." "Does that mean I can say whatever I want to say?" "Yes," replied Lincoln, smiling, "It means you can say whatever you want to say."
"Does it mean," she asked incredulously, "that I can be whatever you want to be?" "Yes, you can be whatever you want to be."
"Does it mean," the young woman asked hesitantly, "that I can go wherever I want to go?" "Yes, it means you are free and can go wherever you want to go."
"Then," said the young woman with tears welling up in her eyes, "I think I'll go with you."
That is what God has done for us. It is what the Christian faith is all about. We have been bought with a price, the price of God's own Son. We now have a new master, one who, once he paid the price, set us free!"
Who would find it hard to follow a Savior who paid that price to set us free? Learn more about this awesome freedom in Christ by checking out Dr. Steve Brown's daily broadcast at Key Life Ministries
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