Fathers Love Gives Freedom to Choose

“If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with. (Author unknown)

Fathers Love Gives Freedom to Choose is a key principle in understanding how to truly walk in love toward others.

No one has ever walked this out in a greater way than God. Jesus gives us a great example in the story of the prodigal of how Father’s love can set us free (Luke 15). Deut.21:20, 21 says that this rebellious son should have been stoned, and yet Jesus shares how the father in this story actually accommodates his request for his inheritance.

Have you ever heard of the Invisible Fence for dogs? It is an electrical wire buried just beneath the grass on the perimeters of a yard. The dog then has a sensor on his collar that gives him a shock if he crosses over the wire. This way the dog learns how far he can go without being shocked.

Now when we get saved, we are committing our lives to the Lordship of Christ. At that prayer, it’s possible that God could have put some kind of shock system on the inside of us so that whenever we would go to spread a little gossip, tell a lie, or even cheat on our diet, we would get “zapped.”  If this were the case, I believe the Body of Christ would very quickly become obedient! But it would only be an outward conformity and God is after our hearts. Fathers love gives freedom to choose. He wants us to choose to obey Him out of love, not duty. He has gone to incredible lengths to have a people who would do this in a radical way!

As you apply this same principle to those you love you will see deeper relationship develop.