This struggle is real for us today as well. We can go to church and do all the right things, check off all the right boxes, and look like a righteous person. But sin will always keep us in slavery if we let it. Being a “good person” is not enough to free us from the hold of sin on our lives.  

But Jesus came to break the chains that sin holds on our lives. He promises that if we abide in Him, we are free. Under His redeeming blood, sin’s power to hold us captive is no longer valid. He has broken the chains of sin and death that previously held us captive. 

But here is the sad part… sometimes, even though we are sons and daughters of the Most High King, we make choices that put those chains back on. We reject the freedom that Jesus purchased for us because the lure of sin pulls us in. We, like the Israelites grumbling in the desert, long for the familiarity of slavery to the uncertainty of freedom.  

Hear me friend, if you have accepted Jesus as your Savior, freedom is yours for the taking. But you do have a choice. We get to choose to put on the identity of son or daughter and put off the identity of slave. Every day we get to choose what identity we live in.  

The freedom that Jesus offers is the only true freedom. There is nothing in this world or the next apart from Jesus that will give us freedom. Your enemy would love to convince you that there is another way. But he’s been whispering that lie since the beginning of time. It started in the garden, and he is still spinning that tale. No matter how alluring that forbidden fruit may look, no matter the promises that it holds for freedom, it will always turn sour in your mouth and only strengthen the chains around your neck. Jesus is the only way to be free.  

And when we embrace HIS freedom, and His freedom alone, we will really be free indeed! There is nothing that compares to the freedom of Christ. No sin, no pleasure, no promise of control… nothing.