And

Freedom is scary. Why? Because freedom will compel you to face the consequences of your actions. Freedom means when mistakes happen there will be no one to blame, not even yourself, for everything within freedom is a learning experience.

And here's something I've discovered lately. Freedom can be lonely, too. Few dare venture into freedom, and even fewer respect it with dignity. Freedom is about responsibility.

And costly, too. It took no less than the life of a God's Son to buy it for us. It is not something cheap that we should play with it as if it were a toy. But if it were not exercised it's as if you have treated Christ's sacrifice as worthless and irrelevant.

And freedom requires that you learn all things the hard way. Freedom means to live in a fallen world, a lonely world, a world where people forget that they need each other too. Not as in the sense of food and water just like we need God. But need in the sense that even in perfectness God in His infinite wisdom declared it not good for one to be alone.

And freedom is lonely when one forgets this fact. Freedom was meant to be enjoyed with responsible hearts AND with beloved friends.

Yes, AND.