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India declared itself a republic about two and half years after it gained independence. 
In 1947, there was freedom at midnight. All were in honeymoon period. Everyone was enjoying the freedom and the in-dependance from the monarchy that they earned. (Rather received.) There was no more bondage. There was no answerability to the queen and lords. 
What was rightfully ours we can claim and use it for our own benefit now. There is an about turn in the course of an Indian's life. 

But there needed to be discipline. The law and order had to be formulated. The Constitution had to be worked out. India had to work out how to run the show by themselves. Order had to be maintained. Though it was the British who was running everything, now we had to figure it out by ourselves. We have to face the heat. But own up and do it responsibility. Thus India declared itself a Republic on this very day in 1950.

Christian living is also like this. From the clutches of the devil we are set free the day we are born again. There is absolute freedom, there is absolute deliverance through the blood of the Lamb. But as we start living in this honeymoon period, we realise the difficulties in living it God's way in this fallen world. We take decisions for God, we realise our mistakes, we rectify, we learn God's standards. We know God as we walk on. 
This journey goes on. Only difference is that being a republic is not a crisis day, but a process for you and me. And there is no Sovereignty involved. We learn more to depend on our Father. We realise that the fact that Jesus is of mankind, by mankind and for mankind. And because of that the death on the cross is valid. And that the Constitution is already formulated..... "Whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. "


So in this journey of ours, let us remember the freedom Jesus earned for us. Let us walk the narrow and difficult way in accordance with His standards and understand the life God has set for us, led by Jesus Himself. Let us declare ourselves free from the power of this world. Independent of this world, but in dependence on Christ. That is a true Republican. 
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