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A Daily Devotional
About the cry of the
multitudes for freedom:
John 8:32 "Then you
will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (NIV)
Matthew 9:36 When he saw
the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless,
like sheep without a shepherd. (NIV)
"We are the multitudes. Please hear our cry. We are imprisoned in a free world but we cannot find the motivation to try to escape. We cannot get out of the box we are in. We cannot escape from the prison we are in no matter where we go or how far away we run. We try our escapes in alcohol, drugs, or sex but there is no end to our imprisonment. The monsters of our life keep coming back after we think we have outrun them. Demons come to dance on our souls when we think we have exorcised them. We are so wrapped up in ourselves we are choking and we are suffocating. We are wrapped up in our selves because of the circumstances of our birth, or the circumstances of our youth, or the other circumstances in our past over which we had no control. We are wrapped up in ourselves but we do not always know the circumstances causing us to be as we are. We live so deep within ourselves it seems we are dead. Please help us, for the more we retreat within ourselves, the closer to death we move."
If you are one of the multitudes, what is so painful for you to do is to get beyond where you are. Trying a new medication or a new therapy is not enough when you have retreated into yourself. Retreating into oneself is like a possession. Retreating into yourself causes you to get so wrapped up in yourself, you cannot unwrap. Tragically and ironically, although Christ lives within you and within your heart, you can totally miss Him. Yet, inside the prison of your heart, there is freedom. Inside the wrapping you have folded over your heart lives a being of love, a being of love helping you break free from your imprisonment. There is within you, within your heart, a person to help you, to encourage you, and to give you the vision to peel off your layers of wrapping, one little layer at a time. While you are unwrapping your heart, Christ stands by you telling you every day spent with Him is Christmas. He tells you no matter what evil, awful, and tragic thing you have wrapped up within yourself, He will turn the evil, awful, tragic thing into a gift you can use to glorify Him. Jesus tells you to take one little step at a time. Jesus tells you He will be with you as you learn to freely walk again, freely breathe again, and freely see again.
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Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from the HOLY
BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION�. NIV�. Copyright � 1973, 1978, 1984 by
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