Today’s Daily Lesson comes from John chapter 8 verses 31 and 32:
31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples; 32and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
Flannery O’Connor once wrote, “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
To be truly free is to be free to be odd. Free to be different. Free to dissent. Free to live free from the expectations and polite customs of others.
Christ has set us free and we are free indeed.
Free to have our own opinions. Free to speak our minds. Free to come or to go. Free to stand tall right where we are. Free to welcome. Free to hold. Free to walk. Free to talk. Free to love. Not free to hate. And free to say so.
Our Freedom is not to be used as a stumbling block for others. But many will trip and fall over it — often intentionally. That’s part of the risk of being free. It’s part of the risk of knowing the truth and trying to live it as truly as we possibly can.
Knowing the truth will make us free; and it will make us odd. And it will also make us alive.
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