The “Cost” of Freedom is Everything
“So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key.”
Kenny shared an amazing story about halfway through this one, and as soon as I heard it, I knew it was going to be really hard to resist the urge to use this line from the Eagles.
Whatever we don’t surrender to God becomes the chain keeping us from the freedom He’s offering us. He says cast our worries onto Him. If we save a few for ourselves, He can’t help us. He wants to. He told us to. But if we don’t, well….that’s on us.
But here’s the thing; giving everything to God isn’t the cost of our freedom. Our freedom is the cost of not giving everything to God. He isn’t the chain, and He isn’t holding us captive. He is the universal key that unlocks any chain we give Him access to. But only the chains we give Him access to. We are welcome to stay bound by whatever chains we think are too big for Him to unlock. We just won’t be free.
It isn’t a one-time decision, and that’s a good thing. We don’t have to give over everything we are ever going to face today. We just have to give up whatever we are facing today and return to our freedom. The freedom that glorifies God and wants to share it with others. Unbound from our sinful nature and voluntarily bound to Him.
