New Morning Mercies #94

Obedience never ends freedom; it is the evidence that true freedom has entered your life and liberated your heart.

I have been liberated,

set free,

and given new life,

new hope,

new motivation,

and new peace

of heart and mind.

No, I have not been freed

from the authority of

another.

I have not been freed

to walk my own way,

to write my own rules,

or to do what I choose.

No, I have been given

the best of freedoms.

I have been freed,

not from God’s rule,

but from my bondage

to me.

Following,

obeying,

serving,

submitting to God

is the thing I was created to do,

so it is the place where

true freedom is to be found.

Rebellion never gives life.

Self-rule never brings freedom.

So grace has worked to rescue

me from me,

so that I can know the true freedom

of serving him.

For further study and encouragement: Psalm 116