From time to time, Daddy shares questions from his children, along with his answers. Here's one asked one night, by little Debbie, after her prayers were said...

Reclaiming Freedom

Daddy, one of my teachers told us that some people in other countries have often lost their freedom.

Where did it go? If they find it, can they get it back?

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Daddy's answer:

Deb, it can help us to understand what freedom is, and where it goes if it gets lost, if we refer to the First Law of Thermodynamics, which states that nothing in the universe is now being created or destroyed. Energy can be converted to other forms of energy, and matter can rather easily be coverted to energy -- but only with great difficulty and often cost, can such energy be transformed back into matter.

Thus it is with Freedom. In God's economy, in what He left us after the Fall, in part of what we call "Free Will", we have a great but not infinate amount of Freedom. When we lose it, it is always due to it being converted into somebody else's power. We may give it up willingly, be tricked out of it, or have it taken by force -- the result is always the same. It will be very difficult to get back any freedom so converted -- it may even take the spilling of blood -- sometimes a lot of it.

Nighty Night!

Daddy