A recent text to some friends about my weight loss goals got me thinking. I had said to them, "I refuse to live the rest of my life trapped in this body." Got me thinking about how often we live imprisoned behind bars that we have, through Christ, already been released from. It is for freedom He has set us free!!! He has already "tunneled" into our jail cells and now He asks us to simply trust Him enough to follow Him to freedom [cue Prison Break music].
Captivity comes in many various forms, sometimes so subtle it can go undetected for years. Christ came that we might have and enjoy with Him an abundant life of complete liberation, not a life sentenced to death row scraps and solitary confinement. As Christians we get to be free! We get a pardon that releases us from our incarceration. We have a right, through the fully accomplished work of Jesus, to live wildly and utterly liberated from all bondage!!! And all means ALL. The weight of sin,fears,disease, insecurities, shame, depression, bitterness, anxiety, selfishness...ALL. Pride, lust, feelings of self-doubt and unworthiness...ALL. ALL mental, emotional, physical and spiritual strongholds...ALL. Whatever the name is on the door of our own individual prisons, Jesus is the Name Above All Names!
If we are bound and feeling trapped and hindered in any way, let us turn to the One who is our Freedom to destroy ALL yokes of bondage, let us strip off all heavy and ill-fitting shackles and the chains that bind us. "It is for freedom Christ has made us free [and completely liberated us]; stand fast then and do not be hampered and held ensnared and submit again to a yoke of slavery." (Gal 5:1 AMP) Let's follow Him to freedom today...He knows the way out because He IS the Way out...
