"Let my people go!" has been the cry of liberators down through the centuries. It was William Wallace's as well.

William Wallace (aka Braveheart) was a Moses for the Scottish people. He confronted the king who was oppressing them with a message of liberty.

Yet, like Moses or Gandhi or MLK, Wallace did not get to see his people walking in freedom. Liberators rarely get that privilege. They expend their lives breaking the existing power structures that subjugate the masses and then they die. 

Of course those in power almost never go off quietly into the night. They strike back and kill. And it is left to the next generation to walk over the Jordan and into freedom. In Wallace's case, there was a nobleman's son, Robert the Bruce, who picked up the standard and finished the job.

But Robert the Bruce was not an obvious successor to Wallace's efforts. He had to consider the cost of freedom and choose to pay it. Destiny comes at a price. Real freedom almost always requires sacrifice - sometimes of lives. They don't call people "freedom fighters" for nothing.

So that begs the question: What freedoms if any would you be willing to die for? 

The original pilgrims forfeited their lives for freedom, nearly half dying in the first winter off the Mayflower. The Greatest Generation fought and died so that their children, the Baby Boomers, got to live in peace. 

God's strategy for freedom is often multi-generational. It's true in nature - almost any animal or any bird will fight and die to protect its young. And so it is that we get to fight for our children too. 

Robert the Bruce might never have led his nation into freedom without William Wallace. It took him years to fully understand Wallace's radicalism and courage. And it took time after that to walk into destiny. Perhaps Robert the Bruce was more political in his outlook. He had a lot to lose, but at some point, he chose to put in on the line to fight for freedom.

You may not be a Braveheart, but maybe you can be a Robert the Bruce. Maybe there are people that you need to lead into freedom. Is there anyone who has preceded you and laid down their lives so that you could walk in freedom? What price do you put on it and what price are you willing to pay?