In our increasingly secular day, the Christian faith, and the Scriptures we teach, seem to be the exact opposite of freedom. For many, freedom is the ability to do what you desire to do without restriction, guilt, or regret.

But is that all freedom is? Living our lives based on what we want and desire?

If you think about it, living by desire is no freedom at all. After all, which desire do you choose? You might have the desire to be fit and healthy. But you also might have the desire to eat donuts. How do you determine which to choose?

Freedom is identifying the path you are designed to take, then denying desires that will hold you back from that path. Freedom is living by the blueprints given to us in Scripture. Freedom takes discipline. Freedom is found in obedience to God, our designer, as counterintuitive as that might seem.

The alternative, as prescribed in the book of John, is slavery to sin. We all live for something, which then becomes our master. The master of sin enters our lives through the deception of human autonomy. It’s all a lie and it all leads to destruction.

Key Text: John 8:31-44