| I spotted the following quote in a news story today: "Some of them were waiting for this moment for 20 or 30 years," Nagy said. "They left behind everything ... because freedom has the greatest value." This quote is referring to East Germans who boldly walked across the border into Austria 29 years ago, passing right in front of a border guard (the speaker quoted above) and into the arms of loved ones who already were in Austria. I thought about what it had been like to live for 30 years without freedom...without even the ability to move about freely or to stay in direct contact with family. I am struck especially by the speaker's final statement: "because freedom has the greatest value". At some point, when the reality of God's love for us "clicks" inside and we realize that He died on the Cross for each of us...that we might be free...we are willing to walk away from all the things that seemed so important and towards the One who loves us so completely...and who has given us our first true taste of Freedom. Because of His love we can walk past the border guard just like the folks from East Germany, leave the past behind and run into the arms of the One who loves us completely and forever. Psalm 34:22 God pays for each slave's freedom;
no one who runs to him loses out. blessings, Rob Smith | 
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