Month: August 2025

“Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest ● Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” Matthew 11:28-29 KJV

This was “The Call” to fallen humanity made by the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, Immanuel, Redeemer, and Friend, to you and me.

True spiritual freedom begins when you and I individually respond positively to Jesus’ Call.

It is often said that the greatest aspiration for humans is “freedom” (liberty).

The Irishman George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), for instance, is remembered for his famous quote, “liberty is the breath of life to nations.” Similarly, the Indian lawyer Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, fondly remembered as Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), stated, “freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

The kind of Freedom God calls us to is entirely different from the type referred to in the above quotes. It involves “coming” to Jesus, “laying down” your heavy load, and “taking up” His burden.

I pray that the Holy Spirit will bring the Word to your remembrance, and that you will (by grace, through faith, in Jesus alone) henceforth live to experience True Freedom.

Here’s a decree written on the table of your heart: “If The Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” John 8:36 KJV

The WORD of God is singular and without contradiction. This is why seemingly contradictory statements such as “let the weak say, I am strong” (Joel 3:10b KJV), “Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted” (James 1:9 KJV), and “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28 KJV) are found in Scripture.

The explanation for these apparent “contradictions” is not as previously suggested by many, that ‘the word of God is difficult to fully grasp,’ ‘we are mere humans,’ or ‘if God wanted us to understand everything, He would have simplified it or made it plain,’ among others.

The Truth is: “Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake. Wherefore should the heathen say, where is now their God? But our God is in the heavens: He hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: they have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: they have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.” (Psalm 115:1-8 KJV)

Imagine what flipping falsehood for the Truth would mean in the context of I AM the Way, The Truth and The Life (John 14:6a KJV)? “…every knee [sh]would bow, of things in heaven, and things on earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue [sh]would confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:10-11 KJV

Just as the Messiah grew as a shoot from the stamp of Jesse, in the same manner a remnant, a holy seed (the terebinth and the oak) – the faithful – those whose are atoned for by the Blood of the Lamb, will see Jesus Christ at His return.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches (Revelation 2:7a; 2:11a; 2:29; 3:6; 3:13; & 3:22 KJV)

Based on Song of Songs by Jedidiah, (“Beloved of Yahweh”)

[1] Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

[2] My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

[3] I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

[4] Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

[5] Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.

[6] Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.

[7] As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.

[8] There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

[9] My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

[10] Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

[11] I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.

[12] Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.

[13] Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

Acknowledgement: Song of Songs 6 KJV