Human freedom of choice is often held hostage by its bondage to the flesh, where your corrupted body dwells and the origin of the desires and wants of your thinking mind that ultimately change the freedom of your choice.
No matter
how soft or strong your bondage may be, one bondage always leads to another.
The more bondages you have, the greater their control on the freedom of your
choices and decisions, and the more wrong things you will subsequently do.
An illustration of one bondage leading to another and yet another
On July 4, 2022, a 25-year-old Black man in Akron, Ohio, was shot 60 times by 8 policemen. The news was widely reported in the media because the victim was a Black man and the police had presumably used “excess force” to gun him down.
The victim, who had no criminal record,
was initially stopped at a routine traffic stop.
Maybe “racial injustice” and “excessive
use of force by police” told the victim’s mind that he had the “freedom” to get
away. So, he chose to get away. His “freedom” tied him to the “bondage”
of “getting away.”
Driving away his car and being chased by
the police put him in another mental situation that gave him the “freedom” to
choose to fire his gun to “stop the police chase.” His freedom of choice only
reinforced his bondage to “getting away.”
After stopping his car at some point, the
bondage of “getting away” told his thinking mind that he had the freedom to
“flee on foot” and so he did.
While running, his bondage told his
thinking mind that he had the freedom to turn around to do whatever he chose
and decided to do. But he was shot dead.
The above tragedy could have been avoided
if the victim had not taken his “freedom” to “get away” in the first
place, which led to his bondage that distorted his thinking mind with another
freedom of wrong decision leading to another and yet another bondage that
finally tied him to his own death.
The "freedom" of choice of actions and decisions is controlled and manipulated by the human mind which lives in the flesh. Probably, that's what happened in the victim's mind: "I'm a Black, and the police don't like me. The police always use excessive force. I've my freedom to get away as soon as possible."
FREEDOM with BONDAGE shows you how to free yourself from your bondage to the flesh that gives you the "freedom" to make the wrong choices and decisions in your everyday life.
Copyright© by Stephen Lau
No comments:
Post a Comment