I have lived the unrestrained life.

Thoughts free from a filter.

Tongue free from a rein

Actions free from any will outside my own.

I made my choices, my way, and in my timing.

Choices of what I did with my body, what I spent my time on, what I put in my body, what I put before my eyes – all done in the way I wanted.

Unbound.

Unconfined.

Uninhibited.

Or so I thought.

In my delusion of freedom I was actually a slave bound to sin and death. I was living contrary to my true design. I was held down by chains, with the oxygen for true life withheld.

I stand today as one whose will has been bent to the Lord’s. A life fully surrendered to His authority. Filtered, purged, and refined. Led and controlled by a Spirit not my own. A living sacrifice.

And let me testify:  I now walk in the joy and strength of conformity to my true design, and I have never felt more free!

It’s soaring. Untethered. True freedom.

That’s the power of the Lord: When you lose yourself, you actually find yourself.

Run to Him to find yourself.