America is a land of personal freedom. Our Bill of Rights says so. We have freedom of religion; freedom of speech; a free press; free assembly; the right to keep and bear arms, and more.
Our country’s constitution doesn’t cover these rights. Yet, they were so important to our country’s founders that they drew up a separate document to ensure these rights were given to every present and future citizen of the United States.
Freedom is the essence of what America is about. Even so, not everyone in this great country is free. Some things keep us tied up as securely as if we had ropes tied around our wrists.
- Debt
- Relationships
- Drugs
- Imprisonment
- Depression
- Sin
These things can drag us down and keep us from living the life we are promised in our country’s founding documents.
The devil desires to take our spiritual freedoms from us. We can read of this in Matthew 12:29:
“Or how can someone enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house.”
Christ makes us spiritually strong. The devil has no power against us. Yet, when we are led astray, we let the evil one begin wrapping cords around our wrists one at a time. We tell the officer we weren’t speeding. We visit an illicit website. We stay up late to watch a show our spouse would disapprove of. We do the small things we think no one notices, when in reality, we are allowing the freedoms of Christ to be taken from us one at a time. When the devil has our wrists wrapped with many cords, he yanks them tight, and we yelp in surprise. We find we are bound in sin, and we have no way to get free. That is when we are plundered by the world. Our finances, our family, and our faith are stolen from us, and there is nothing we can do. We have lost everything.
We have only one solution. We must return to our Bill of Rights. We must hold to the Word of God and cast the bindings of the devil free, so that we can once more know the freedom that comes with our faith in Christ.
The devil will daily try to entrap us. We must faithfully endeavor to remain free from that which would bind us. We must continually study the Word, lest the devil steal our spiritual freedoms from us.
We must set the boundaries and never let the devil cross over to invade our lives.
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