I have never met a person that wants to be controlled. The reason for this is because we were made for freedom. Free to make our own choices, free to love, free to give, free to follow, free to lead, free, free, free we were created to be free. They were free in the Garden of Eden to eat from any tree in the garden (Genesis 1); Jesus said in John 8, you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free. Freedom is the heartbeat of the word of God. We have been set free, but the challenge is remaining free for we have an enemy and the enemy has a name, sin. Sin is the antithesis of freedom, for sin makes you a slave and Jesus sets you free.

Have you ever wondered why we use our freedom to sin which takes away the very freedom we were given so freely? No one can make you sin, sin is a choice you and you alone make. Which means we give up our freedom freely by choosing to sin. Sin is not just a behavior we can call sin like sex outside of marriage, stealing, murder, idolatry, but sin is also a heart posture that wants to do things our way not God’s way. The Bible calls that sin rebellion. When we freely give up our freedom to sin, we become controlled by sin. But no one wants to be controlled, so why do we sin?

I was reading 2 Samuel 7 this morning and it says, “Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it. Therefore you are great, O LORD God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.” Do you realize God’s heart for you is to bring about the promises He spoke to you and over you? Did you know His desire is to make you know all the great things He has planned for you? His heart is not to control you but to liberate you, but you must let go of doing it your way and let Yahweh lead the way.

Jeremiah 29:11 says, He knows the plans He has for you, plans to prosper you, to give you a future and a hope. Did you know He spoke that through the prophet Jeremiah to a people who were slaves in Babylon? He made them a promise of freedom while they were in slavery. Friends, the blood of Jesus has been shed so you do not have to sin, let it go, freedom is waiting for you to access what has been granted to you in Jesus.