Five Minute Friday: Release

6/20/2014

Release

It's the word for today and since I literally only have seven minutes to sit here before I have to scoot to have a shower and run out the door. Which means I won't be adding an eye-catching image, at least not until later today (should I find one). :)

Anyways, five minutes to write on a one word prompt, courtesy ofLisa-Jo Baker.

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Release.   I asked the two males in my life what the word release meant to them.

The eight year old said "releasing something I caught."
The 48 year old said "capture".

And there you have it. Release.
To be released is to be let go of something that has captured you.

So one can be released of a bondage to sin or a life pattern or a way of thinking or from imprisonment.
One can be released to a new idea, a new mode of doing things, to a freedom never before experienced.

Release is so life freeing.
Imagine... this... God sent his son to die so that we can ultimately be released from our bondage to sin.   He did you know. He told us so in his most holy word.

Release.
Freedom from something.   Freedom to go to something better..

That is what release is you know.... freedom to live the life that God has called us to.

Are you released?

Patty Mejia Burke link

6/20/2014 03:48:22 am

Love your post - we can be freed from the bondage of sin. Great minds think alike (ha ha!) because that's what I wrote about.

Patty

annette @ A net in Time

6/20/2014 04:12:39 pm

Patty, thanks for stopping in and being an encouragement. it is appreciated. :)

Karyn B. link

6/20/2014 04:32:18 pm

I don't think I had ever thought of the opposite of release...capture. In order to be released, you have to have been captured. It makes perfect sense. Something holding tight. Thank you for sharing. I found you on FMF.
Karyn B.

annette @ A net in Time

6/23/2014 05:23:23 pm

thanks for stopping by Karyn. I do love to be released don't you?

Kelli Moore link

6/23/2014 04:45:57 pm

I concur with all of the above. Especially with the opposite idea. Which might seem quite simple - but actually altered my whole line of thinking. It just became more urgent to be released. Jesus has already died that we might be set free - who am I to stay captured? Thanks so much for sharing. Visiting from FMF - on Monday!

annette @ A net in Time

6/23/2014 05:24:08 pm

we mustn't you know... stay captured. Freedom is what we are called to, pulled toward. :)

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