For you were called to freedom; only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the sinful nature, worldliness, selfishness, but through love serve and seek the best for one another.
Galatians 5:13
As we celebrate freedom here in the United States today, I thought this was the perfect scripture for our Build Up Challenge.
We have been ‘called to freedom’, out of captivity and away from a daunted life. Undaunted freedom is ultimately the goal of our lives, where we walk in complete trust of God and not at the captivity of Daunters that lie, deceive and stop us from being all God has called us to be.
The story of being an Undaunted Woman doesn’t stop at our freedom from our Daunters. In fact, it is just the beginning of the process. Our freedom is to not just about us.
Freedom creates opportunity. We have the choice as to what we will fill that void with. Will we make this about ourselves? Will we focus on our lives, desires, hopes, needs and adopt the mindset of the modern ‘selfie’ world we live in. Or will we put on the ‘new man’ and let the void be filled with love? Firstly with the love of God but secondly with the love for others.
“Seek the best for one another”! What would the world look like if we did this every day? If instead of letting the worldliness of envy, jealousy, rivalry, and self dictate our interactions we let love for each other help us to seek the best for one another. Maybe we could all take a huge collective sigh and breathe again. Maybe we could instantly eliminate the vast majority of the Daunters we face each day. Maybe we would make it much harder for the enemy to find a breeding ground for division and strife.
Praying for those that spitefully use us is not easy but there is freedom in it and may even be the key that releases you from the captivity of the Daunters that belong to the house of worldliness.
So today think of a woman that you have had the hardest time wishing the best for and then pray for her. Not that prayer!!! The prayer where you ask God to bless her and help her to be the woman that God has called her to be!