An early-morning realisation about the path to inner freedom.
An angel of the Lord came at night, opened the gates of the jail, and brought them out (Acts 5:19; NLT).
You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free (John 8:32; NLT).
Please help me, Lord, to be myself –
There’s really no one else to be!
Congruent, authentic, real –
For this is how you set us free.
Please help me, Lord, to be myself –
To live like you: without a veil;
Honest, genuine, direct –
For then I will escape my jail.
Please help me, Lord, to be myself –
To be like you: without a mask,
And speak the truth in love each day –
For this, my Lord, is all you ask.
Speak the truth in love growing in every way more and more like Christ (Ephesians 4:15; NLT).
The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty [emancipation from bondage, true freedom]. (2 Corinthians 3:17; AMP).
If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed (John 8:36; NIV).
References
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me” (John 14:6; NLT).
We all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit (2 Corinthians 3:18; NIV).
The Spirit is the truth (1 John 5:6; NIV).
A reading: Luke 4:16-21; NLT.
When he came to the village of Nazareth, his boyhood home, he went as usual to the synagogue on the Sabbath and stood up to read the Scriptures.
The scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was written:
“The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the LORD’s favor has come.”
He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently.
Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”