Freedom is something everyone wants. No one wants to feel stuck, trapped, or restrained. These days it seems that many of us are experiencing a lack of freedom in many ways. When our circumstances limit us, we can easily lose sight of the fact that is is God’s plan that we live in freedom—that He literally came to set the captives free!

There are many ways we can feel trapped: relationships, job, house, a diseased body, mental dysfunction or emotional fears. No matter what the trap, Jesus has a solution. But His solution is an internal one, it starts in the heart. God wants to free us from our personal prison, and He wants us to experience that freedom from the inside out.

He came that we would have freedom in our everyday life. He came to take us out of a secluded pit and put us on firm ground and put a new song in our mouth – a song of freedom.

David wrote a song about this:

I waited patiently for the Lord;
And He inclined to me and heard my cry.
He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.
He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God;
Many will see and fear
And will trust in the Lord. Psalm 40:1-3

Ask Him. Cry out to Him. Tell Him your pain. He knows it. Then wait for Him to lift you out of the pit. Let Him set your feet on solid ground. Then sing your new song of freedom and embrace the Life before you!