Your Eden Work

As we start the Independence Day holiday in the United States,  many of us think about freedom and “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”  Many other countries also have their own independence day, when I’m sure they think of the same things.  But we need to ask the question, “Are we really free?”

Most of us are tied down to jobs and bosses we don’t want, but we should ask ourselves, “What do we want?”

We here in America and in many other countries have the freedom to participate in free enterprise: the right to be entrepreneurs.

Many of America’s founding fathers were entrepreneurs, land speculators and securities speculators, including Benjamin Franklin and Robert Morris.

We also know that the majority of them, if not most, were Christians.  They probably got a lot of their inspiration about freedom from the Bible.

There are a lot of scripture verses that talk about liberty and freedom, but two of them inspire me particularly in these difficult economic times, and is why I believe most Christians should at least have or be in the process of starting a part-time business:

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. - Galatians 5:1 (NIV-emphasis mine)

Were you a slave when you were called? Don’t let it trouble you–although if you can gain your freedom, do so. - 1 Cor. 7:21 (NIV-emphasis mine)

Ahh…Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness…

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