God has created us with His perfect intentions. He has reasons. They flow out of who He is. His character/His heart. Somehow they include us. Because of His love. Because of the communal nature of who He is and who invites us to be.
Along the way we have lost our way. We have been sidetracked. Blinded. Distracted. We have believed a lie. In actuality many lies.
When God sets us free it is by the truth. It is by the very nature of who He is. And it is for the purpose of fulfilling His purposes for creation and for each of us individually. And therefore the freedom that He has for us is in regard to whatever is defeating us.
It is in the very areas of our weakness that Satan will attempt to find a foothold and pull us down, and in those same areas, God wants to set us free.
His Word tells us that we are a slave to whatever has mastered us and so therefore God wants to give us freedom through His power to overcome anything that has mastered us.
And the freedom that God gives only comes through surrender and submission. To be free is to choose lordship. His Lordship. Because amazingly the Lordship of Christ in our lives is the definition of true and complete freedom because it gives life and peace, power and purpose.
Pastor Michael Johnson 