Break the Chains

            We celebrated our country’s freedom on July 4th but many of us are NOT truly free because we don’t have spiritual freedom.

            Some of us may be chained to circumstances in our lives. We may be chained to our bills and our debt. We may be chained to our jobs. We may be chained to our phones, our emails, our messages. We may be chained to our popularity, and what others think of us. We may be chained to the pursuit of money, fame and glory. We may be chained to health issues, anger problems, anxiety, depression, addiction. We may be chained to our past, what has been done to us, what has been said about us, how we’ve been treated or mistreated.

            But all of us can know what it means to experience true freedom, to be set free. It’s not about where we are physically. It’s where we stand spiritually. When I talk to men in prison, they’re not physically free. They don’t have the freedom we enjoy because they are behind bars. But I know some of those men have more freedom than many of us because they have spiritual freedom.

            Our real freedom, our true peace comes from a relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And everyone can gain that freedom. It doesn’t matter what we’ve done in the past. It doesn’t matter how far removed we think we are from God. We can gain break the chains and find true freedom by surrendering all to the Lord and dedicating our life to Christ.           

            Our latest episode features an interview with former Tampa Bay Buccaneers lineman Randy Grimes, who broke the chains of addiction by trusting in the Lord.