Hands and Power That Can Do It

Is My hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Isaiah 50:2 (New King James Version)

Among the many things we crave is freedom. It is hard to fathom living in a country where freedom is rare or nonexistent. Here in America we have countless freedoms. As long as we have the resources, energy, ability, and desire we can go where we want, live where we want, and do what we want. But with that freedom comes responsibility and accountability. For if my acts of freedom entail breaking the law or brings harm to others or myself, I will have consequences to live with. Someone wisely said, “I can choose my sin, but I cannot choose my consequences.”

There are many who walk in freedom in the ways I have described but they are still not free from their past, their addictions, their strongholds, their generational bents, or their weaknesses. They live their life chained and enslaved by circumstances, choices, and habits. They have resigned themselves to a life of defeat. They cannot even conceive of walking in freedom internally. The invitation to embrace God and dance in His presence is unfathomable.

But God asks two questions which are meant to make us think. He asks if His hand is shortened and if He is powerless? The answer is NO whether we believe it or not. He is not powerless to free us and His hand is not too short to redeem us! This should change our whole outlook.

May God help us each morning to lift our “chains” to Him so He can not only unlock them but remove them. He longs to free us from those things that bind and confine us. It may have to start with asking God to reveal to us where we are in bondage. He wants to show us those things that prevent us from living in true freedom not to condemn and shame us but to free us!

The day I learned to come to God with honesty and vulnerability was the day I began to experience His love and freedom.

Father, You hold out the key while I hold up the chains. May the sound of fallen chains ring in my soul today. Amen.

Indescribable - Chris Tomlin
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Fixing my eyes on Jesus, the Author and Finisher of my faith!