FREEDOM

Elizabeth Keckley was a slave in Missouri before the Civil War. Her greatest desire was to purchase freedom for herself & her son. Her owner agreed that if she could raise $1,200 she could gain her freedom.

Keckley worked as a seamstress & came up with a plan to go to New York City & work there to raise the money, but her owner feared that she would not return.

Instead, some of her wealthy clients in St. Louis contributed the money she needed & Elizabeth Keckley paid the price for her freedom as well as her son’s. She moved to Washington, DC, where she counted Mary Lincoln (wife of President Abraham Lincoln) among her dressmaking clients.

Without the help of someone else, Keckley would never have been able to purchase her freedom.

All of us were enslaved to sin with no hope of ever gaining freedom. In mercy & compassion, Jesus gave His life for us, purchasing our salvation by shedding His blood on the cross.

We are now free from sin, but that freedom does not mean that we do whatever we want. Instead we are to live how Jesus wants us to live.      

- (ministry127.com)

"There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought."  - Charles Kingsley.

Gal 5:1 (GNB): "Freedom is what we have - Christ has set us free! Stand, then, as free people, and do not allow yourselves to become slaves again."

"If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk out of your messes."  - Joyce Meyer.