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The GB News Daily Reflection
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Hello, my name is Marjorie and I'm a minister in the north of England
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Let My People Go is now the well-known theme song from the West End musical The Prince of Egypt
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which documents Moses' call to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt into the Promised Land
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Probably less well-known is the biblical phrase that follows in the original text
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Let my people go so that they may worship me in the wilderness
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God sets his people free from something and for something. Ethics today struggles to define freedom
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We have a huge value on freedom from enslavement as a society, and rightly so
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But just being me and being true to me in this culture of you do you
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may not actually allow for the freedom of others. The Bible helpfully defines that in our human state we are naturally slaves to
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selfishness to sin and to anything and everything that we worship the idols of our lives By idols we don mean golden statues but anything and everything that has our affection and our
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devotion. And whenever we worship an idol, be that money, pleasure, power, it traps us
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True freedom is never about having no boundaries or just doing what I want to do
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That's chaos, not freedom. True freedom is being able to choose who and what we worship
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And as we approach Easter and we reflect on the cross of Jesus Christ, his death and resurrection
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we realize this offers us true freedom. Ultimately, Jesus offers us the way to know God
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as he himself said in John's Gospel, I am the way, the truth and the life
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and no one comes to the Father except through me. Then we experience what Jesus calls the fullness of life
