This post became such a long one as many thoughts are in this song. So please feel free just skip it and just listen to music if you’d like!! Thanks.
The song “Free” written by Stephen Curtis Chapman, Christian Artist in USA, became an inspiration to write this song.
There is a story in the song “Free” when Stephen visited a prisoner under death row in Michigan USA. He met Jesus and accepted as his personal savior in prison, and he told Stephen “I am paying the price here for what I have done”, then his voice grew strong “But I am free, I was forgiven, the love of God has broken the chain and given me these wings. Even the death cannot take away this freedom from me. Because Jesus has set me free.”
They said prayer together with tears filled in their eyes. After he left the prison, a thought came to his mind. He thought in one way we are all the same as this prisoner. We are not in the prison, but we are all chained by sin within us and waiting for the death which will come to us someday. But when we find Jesus and knowing that His atonement will give us freedom, we can say “I am really, truly free!”.
“If the Son has set you free, you are free indeed” John 8:36
This song will sing this scripture repeatedly and it inspired me to write my original song.
If you are living a life, many things will throw staff at us. It will say to us “The person like you should go to this school. You are only qualified to do this kind of job. You can come here but should not go there. You should wear this but not like that.” Those voices are convincing and before you know it, you believe it and bear it on your shoulder. It will tie you down and allow you to see only very limited possibility in your life. You know that you have unique character, preference, thought, and inspiration but those voice will suppress your originality God has given you and suffocate you.
When Jesus set you free, the change will happen inside of us. You will think “Is it O.K. for the person like me to do this? To go there? Is it O.K. for me to think like that?” But Jesus says “YES OF COURSE! Because my cross has set you free!” When this change happens in you, it will open your eyes to see the possibility you never thought and the whole new world will open up in front of you.
Our Heavenly Father has created us in specific design for a purpose and to live according to His design is like the birds flying big sky freely spreading their wings. It is never randomly doing whatever you like, but it is living truly to yourself. And nothing, even the death cannot take away the joy from you to live such a life.
I wrote this song with these thought in my mind. I hope you will be encouraged and sing this song in your community too! Thank you for reading long post!