Two hundred thirty-five years ago a group of people were “up to here” with the way the government was conducting themselves. Logic tells me that this unrest had been brewing for several years. Some probably thought “this was the way it will always be,” where others were thinking “we have to do something about the way things are.” Nevertheless, the people who had come over to this land from England were ready to start over. The problem, England didn’t want to let them.

This can sound a bit like us and our “old life” (II Corinthians 5:17). Our new life wants to be independent, but our old life doesn’t want to give it up. It wants to remain connected and have you ruled under that old life. All this results in having a continue battle for independence. Not inviting that old life back, but yet the old life will battle with us because it doesn’t want to separate.

Start to dissolve your connection between your old “selfs” and the new self for the sake of freedom. Be prepared for a battle that will inevitably come your way. Here is the concluding paragraph of the Declaration of Independence to see what they said as they concluded with this document.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. - John Hancock