Riff's Christian Journal

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Thus begins the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America starting on their fight to obtain freedom from tyranny. Eventually they did become a free and independent nation.

I am a citizen of a bigger and better nation that is not of this world. That nation is the Kingdom of God.

At one time I, like everyone else – like you – was a servant to my sin nature, and that sin nature was taking me down the road to face God’s wrath on Judgement day. On that day if I were to be found guilty of my sins, I would be sentenced to spend all eternity in the Lake of Fire with Satan and all of the fallen angels that followed him.

However, God intervened on my behalf and according to His will, and for His glory – being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who works all things after the counsel of His own will: that we should be to the praise of His glory, by grace God set me free from my sins and set me on a path of righteousness.

From Romans 6 we read these verses:

Rom 6:17  But God be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 

Rom 6:18 Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness.

Rom 6:22 But now being made free from sin, you have become servants to God,

God has a Declaration of Independence day for all of His people whom He has chosen from before the foundation of the world. On the day that He has set for each of us, He brings freedom to us by setting us free from being a servant to our sin nature and that we may be to the praise of His glory.

Now, having been set free from sin, we have become servants of God, to serve Him and Him alone. All of His chosen people are truly created equal, that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness, according to God’s will.

The result is we have been forgiven of our sins, and made alive in our spirit, all because of what Jesus, our great God and Savior, has done for us, and we have been adopted into the family of God.

The children of God have a true and an everlasting Declaration of Independence day. One not given by man, but by God Himself to set us free to serve Him and to know His love, unto the praise of His glory.

To our great God and Savior.