Freedom
When Christ sets you free, there is no effort required. It just is. All the striving and wanting to be free are replaced with the simple and profound release, freedom, and Presence of Christ. Maybe you have been praying to be set free from a certain habit, sin, bondage but have not found freedom yet. You have cried out to the Lord and your heart is in the right place. But still, no freedom. Old thought patterns and habits hold strong to your soul. What is the answer? If Christ promises to set us free, then why are so many of us still bound by our ways and thoughts? Old wounds can get the best of us if we let them. But Christ longs to set us free from all pain and bondage! Sometimes, the Lord simply shows up. We may not have been praying or even thinking about being free, and one morning, it just happens. That is what I experienced the other day. It was bliss. It was heaven. There was no effort on my part. I simply was free. Free on the inside. Free from how I thought toward ce