Free.99?

For a while I had always been wondering, just what did my own cell group name really mean, after it just stumbled onto our tongues, and we all just seemed to love it?

FREE.99

When it's dissected, there's FREE, and then there's a period, and then 99.

We are FREE. By the grace, love, mercy, you name it, He's got it, of God, we are FREE. That was part of this year's theme for KNA. Freedom and Unity. 

The period is there to make it look like a really bad joke of a price tag.

But the 99? At first it was just there to satisfy the whole price tag thing... but I overheard my youth pastor saying how we should look through the 9th verse of every 9th chapter in the bible to fulfill some deeper meaning. With the time that I had, why not?

So I did my research, and here! I found EZRA 9:9.

"Though we are slaves, our God has not deserted us in our bondage. He has shown us kindness..."

(The rest of the verse talks about how God remained by the slaves even with the trouble of the Persians.)

The first bit of that verse really spoke to me. Though we are slaves, in this case, not so much tangibly, to the things we see, to the earth, to ourselves even sometimes, God doesn't desert us from bondage. We are free slaves. Freed, freed, freed, freed, freed.

I kind of find that amazing if anything. There's still a person that will remain with us, through all the smoke, despite all the pain, even when we are so foolish with ourselves, God will not abandon us. Amazing, just because it simply is.