https://odb.org/MY/2021/09/23/frolicking-in-freedom
I watched a documentary before on the happiness and sheer joy of young calves frolicking in the open fields after being let out of their stables. They will run and run and run, with such enjoyment and such abandonment. They want to stretch their legs, to let it all go after being confined to their stables. Closer to home, a similar picture can and will be seen when we are finally allowed inter-state travel after being stuck in our homes and towns for months due to MCO. We will just want to drive and drive and go to some faraway place, to visit family and friends or even just to eat and chill, just to go somewhere.
This picture of frolicking calves is an excellent metaphor for the joy and happiness of a believer who found Christ. Jesus gave us a similar picture in the parable of the precious pearl, where a merchant after finding that pearl, sold everything he had and bought that pearl (Matthew 13:45-46). It was preceded by a similarly themed parable of the hidden treasure in verse 44 where a man after finding the treasure, hid it again and in his joy, went on to sell everything he had and bought that land.
Accepting Christ has to be the most important decision we have ever made and Christ being the most valuable thing that we ever had. More important than even our decision to marry our life partner, more valuable than all our possessions and wealth. Why? Because it’s a life after death question, a decision that determines our future home for all eternity. When we pass away from this earth, we cannot bring over anything except our soul, our life story and our faith. But since we have Christ with us, He will be there with us on the other side of eternity. He promised us before that He had gone ahead of us to prepare a place for us, a room at our Father’s vast heavenly mansion. With Christ with us, our final destination is assured and our destiny in God is sealed. We are part of the family, we have become a certified member of the Kingdom of God. That is why both the merchant and the man sold everything they had to buy the pearl and the land with the hidden treasure. That is how precious and valuable Christ is.
I guess sometimes we forget (me included) how fortunate and blessed we are to have known Christ. If we had not made that decision, whether just yesterday or many moons ago, we will still be on the path that leads to destruction. We would still be chasing after fame and fortune, after power and position, after status or whatever our interests are. Actually nothing too wrong with all those ambitions except that they will not matter when we face the judgment day. The question that matters is whether the Lord our Christ knows us? Is our name written in the Book of Life? Did we accept the grace that was given to us freely when we were yet sinners and alive in this world? God has been good to us by calling us to Him. Will we not reciprocate and be a living sacrifice that is holy and acceptable to Him? Will we not offer our bodies to serve Him and to fulfil His plans and purposes for our lives? Will we not be frolicking in the fields like the young calves? Be thankful and grateful, do our part for God…
Ronnie's Thoughts 