To not hinder, not judge, not punish, not incarcerate

Day 133

I see that Your greatest creation, that of mankind, required Your greatest personal sacrifice in order that it might be free – free to become and express what it was meant to be, why it was created in the first place. While I have not made an actual ‘thing’ I have created an ‘idea’ that would do the same: allow men to be free and be as You have created them from the beginning. That freedom is a financial release from the captivity of others, the dominion of one man over another in this area.

It seems the tool that moves most men’s hearts, and one exploited by the enemy, is money. It corrupts, it seeks its own: its own security, its own expression, its own power, its own statement as the absolute in purpose. In doing so, it captures the heart and mind, and drives man’s purpose. I seek to free man from the purpose of accumulation, and possession, and power over another by allowing each man to move as You will without control by another: that means freedom to invest into whatever he desires to pursue without control; to give of his resources without fear of dilution, or confiscation, or interference by another.

It is this freedom of expression, this drive for bettering all around him, for growing and nurturing and developing, that all men may prosper. In doing this the enemy’s power is broken in major areas of influence and temptation. It is not to command wealth, or command sustenance for another, or even command the resources of heaven for personal means but to allow for freedom to have its fullness within each, that each may have his own mission of freedom by You in all those areas. It is in truth: to just not give a fish, but to teach how to fish; not just provide a miracle but teach how to do miracles.

And to this purpose is one of the great reasons for the creation of man: the expression of his full capacity as an expression of Me. My greatest joy is to see a man move as I would, to bring freedom to another as I would, to bless in all ways as I would. To not hinder, not judge, not punish, not incarcerate but to restore freedom, purpose, joy, and fullness of Me in all he would desire to do.

Will there be mistakes? Yes. Regret? Yes. Sorrow? Yes. But in all there is a divine purpose from Me to become all that I have made him to be, and as long as that vision remains before him the more it will come to pass. You have that vision; it is forming within, getting clearer within each day, directing your purpose to fulfillment. May its fulfillment stay before your eyes always even as you remain before My eyes always. All will come to pass.

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In 2020 liberty took a huge blow – the likes of which hasn’t been seen for many generations – but it was not finally mortal. The means by which we’ve crawled out of the pit deserve close scrutiny. The cause of human rights is nowhere near being safe. But the ground has been prepared. In all the places where lockdowns have faltered and political and intellectual change have arisen in their stead, we’ve consistently seen one word rise to the top of public rhetoric: freedom. It’s a simple word, much used but rarely understood in all its fullness. To be free is an implausible state of humanity. It is the great exception. When freedom does triumph, and when it does stick as a stable presumption of public life, the results are astonishing but also threatening to established interests and partisans of a thousand other causes. If we can keep in mind the primacy of freedom as an ideal, and let that ideal moor us to all that we think and do, we stand the highest possible chance of success.

– Jeffrey A. Tucker