Is it really to do what you want? If we are honest, we realize that that is what we hope it means. In living life, freedom's meaning is found in process, where we gain understanding. Innocence has no clue, of what to do, with such an esoteric concept.
Before we've even started, our adversary would replace, for us, with pointless exploitative substitutes, this great gift. The devil incites us to remain ignorant of this viscerally, gratifying satisfaction for which our soul longs. Sin is the greatest robber there is.
It is only after we are taken into captivity that we realize what it is exactly, that we do not want. From the lack comes the longing and the tears. Freedom is something greater than this ugliness which rules us, resulting from the culmination of our desires worked out to their ends. Worshipping the flesh is abuse, not freedom. We arrived here when we were led astray by distraction, deception, and finally, disenfranchisement. So when our enslavement is removed, when our bindings are cut off, we realize what freedom is for.
First, He breaks our chains. We no longer answer to the rules of an abusive pagan system. We answer to HIM with grace, hope, and love. We see the dizzying width of the distance, between where we are in Him, and where we were, between where we have been and where we are going. Our desire to do what we want changes to desiring to do what frees and strengthens another to like privilege of position. There is joy without censure, this being like Him.
This is how God turns our ashes to beauty, and mourning into joy, turns the worst of possible circumstance into blessed celebration. Our hearts are free by knowing HIM! Freedom is not given to us to be boring with the drugery of tasks to be done, or blind repetition. It is a clear eye, a keen mind, and a willful drive towards sacrificial involvement, an obvious, heartfelt appreciation of all that loves and is loved! Freedom is the implementing of the choice we make, NOW! We are free when we belong to Him, when we are lost in the unrivalled pleasure of His love and beauty. No chains can rebind me, no mind can confine me, filled as I am with Spirit of freedom!
