What is freedom if you are just trying to stay alive? I asked this question once to a friend of mine. Well, I didn't quite understand his answer, until I watched "Lincoln". It is a movie about the 13th Amendment to the US constitution, positioned in time towards the end of a civil war.
Freedom is given to the slaves, as Lincoln believed all humans are born equal. All are created in the likeness of God. The amount of reference to God, as in the biblical God, in the movie actually prompted me to think about how God viewed freedom. The concept of freedom has now been overly skewed towards having no laws at all. Look at nature, there are laws that none can escape from, but it is within these laws that we can see flowers blossom and fishes swim in oceans. All are free, but there has to be law. We can do what we want, but not all is for our good - and we ought to see ourselves from another view other than the view that we should be enjoying ourselves (desire-oriented). For if we can do whatever we please, there is no freedom. Freedom limits the freedom of the other. We have to choose what we limit.
Believing the revelation, I see society's basis in a family, a core unit of a husband and wife, raising up children, to multiply. I see human's status on Earth, as the keeper of the resources entrusted to us, not to exploit the animals or plants or other resources for our greed. I see you and me as a wonderful creation of God, having a chance of being restored in relationship to God.
There are areas of my life that were not God-centred. I used to think that I shall look for my own fateful partner, though I will pray about it, but somehow I still submit to my own desires to look for a partner that I like. Then, I realised how blessed it is to have a partner that is prepared by God, therefore I shall submit to God's planning, learning how to love, trusting in His timing.
