As our son grew our growing daughter didn’t want to stay behind. My parents bought them a set of bunk beds. Our son slept on top so we took the crib apart and used the side rails to close in the sides of the bottom bunk for our daughter since sleeping in the crib was out of the question for her. She managed to get out all the time. She’d also climb halfway up the bed ladder and then cry for help. We’d toss her back in bed and she’d do it over and over. We even sealed the entire bed like a small child prison and placed her on a mat. Next morning, she was still on her mat but she had slid under one of the ladder rungs and landed intact on the floor! Would she grow up to be an escape artist? Only God knew. For now we were glad to know they were both growing and she’d soon be out of her prison.
Jesus came to set captives at liberty; to give them deliverance. Are you free today? If you haven’t rendered or surrendered your life to Him, you’re not free. Complete freedom comes with giving our very selves to Him. All prison chains fall off. What types of chains, you ask? Chains of blame; of blaming others for all that’s wrong in your life or all that’s befallen you. There are chains of anger, chains of hate, chains of indifference to others or to their needs. Maybe you have chains of irresponsibility. We all need to take credit for what we’ve done, or haven’t done. Once set free, we become escape artists (from Satan’s grip). We can then climb the ladder of spiritual growth that leads to the Father. Leave your prison today! Bask in the comfort and promises of God’s words of hope. Read the words of Isaiah, chapter 61, verses 1-3: “The Spirit (Ruach) of the Lord is upon me: because the LORD has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he has sent me to bind the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound: To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD (Yaweh), and the day of vengeance of our God (Elohim); to comfort all that mourn; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD (Yaweh), that he might be glorified.”