"Abide ye in the liberty wherewith ye are made free; entangle not yourselves in sin, but let your hands be clean, until the Lord comes."
Doctrine and Covenants 88:86
Reading this, it seems to me that God is showing us that sin is the opposite of liberty, rather than something like slavery, which is an interesting thing to ponder. I can see it... the more we sin, the less free we are, getting bogged down in the consequences and the addictive behaviors. God's plan leads us to the real freedom... not freedom from rules, but understanding and knowledge to be able to create things, working with the rules. ...
I imagine it a little bit like language. If we see the rules of language as oppressive, then we can reject them and go off on our own, inventing our own way to communicate, but that leaves us very restricted as to who we can interact and communicate with. On the other hand, if we learn the rules of language, then we have a lot more freedom to create an almost unlimited amount of things and communicate freely.
Today, let's take a minute to think about freedom and sin, and determine to choose God, and his better path to true freedom.
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