Freedom of expression
In the midst of all your troubles, pain, and suffering you have been given an amazing ability — the power to open or to shut down your heart. Choose to open your heart to love and forgiveness not to anger and bitterness. If we would express more kindness, we’d receive more kindness.
If there’s no real free will then there’s no freedom of expression or freedom of choice — only humanity’s AI mindlessly obeying IT. However when I decide to observe and use my conscious mind I’m confronted with constant choices to make. To proclaim freedom of choice but not believe in human free will is hypocritical. There’s no freedom of expression without free will.
God offers a beautiful destiny to all people — a destiny paid for through the blood of Jesus. He has given people the freedom to choose or to reject that beautiful destiny of an eternal loving relationship with Him. God is eternal and “knows the end from the beginning.” His foreknowledge enables Him to foresee human choices before they are made. “God is love” so He hates the choices that people make that separate them from His eternal presence and love. He seeks to draw all people unto Jesus. He has mercy and compassion on all who will choose to humble themselves to receive His mercy and the sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross.
To begin to experience the beauty of the best words beautifully arranged, open your heart to notice the thoughts that God expresses within you. Let Jesus make an eternal impression in your heart, and you will ever overflow with glorious expression. Being natural isn’t what it’s puffed up to be. Let the living Jesus lead, train, and empower you to be supernatural! The most important freedom of expression is the expression of “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Let the risen Jesus freely flow from within you!
Open your heart to the fruit of God’s Spirit. It has no harmful side effects — only an amazing sense of blessing and contentment. All who open their heart in surrender to Jesus and trust Him with their lives are empowered to be led by the Spirit. Will you follow? John 1:12/Romans 8:14.
The leadership, presence, vitality, energy, and expressions of the Holy Spirit are essential to genuine Christianity. Christians need to go beyond quoting preachers or expressing our own opinions. We need to speak words prompted by God’s Spirit.
Institutional religion tends to make Christians robotic — following a party line and being unkind to those who disagree. God’s discipline isn’t comfortable but to refuse to accept it is to cut yourself loose from ultimate reality.
My philosophy
I don’t have to express
Emotions and desires
That cause duress
And let them oppress
My life with stress
And compel me to transgress
My conscience.
I’m free to resist them
And to deny them access
To my heart
And my free will.
I’ve learned
An amazing lesson.
I can choose to use
My freedom of expression
To resist and refute
Feelings of depression
And to refuse
To cooperate with them.
Express kindness through
All you say and do.
Then you will find
That you feel kind
And people will be kind
To you.
When I choose to make
My facial expression
Match the way
I want to feel
Eventually I will
Begin to feel
That way.
To empty your face
Of negative expressions
And replace
Them with hope
Helps you
And those who
Have to look at you.
It takes courage
To resist
Bad feelings
That persist
And to insist
That your heart
Be a place
Of purity.
Be courageous.
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