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The person gripping control is the most enslaved. True freedom comes only through surrender. What are you still clutching?
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paradox lives at the center of Christian
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truth. And perhaps nowhere more sharply
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than here, the most enslaved person is
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the one trying to be free. The most
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anxious is the one demanding certainty.
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The most burdened is the one refusing to
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lay down their load. This is
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counterintuitive. The world teaches
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maintain control and you'll be safe.
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Hold everything loosely, it says, and
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you'll lose everything. Surrender is the
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road to ruin. But the world is wrong
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about this. Completely wrong. When you
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clutch, you are imprisoned by the very
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things you're trying to secure. Your
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reputation, your outcomes, your image,
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your comfort, your future. You become a
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servant to the maintenance of these
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things. Every day you're defending them,
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protecting them, renegotiating them,
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fighting to ensure they don't slip away.
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This is not freedom. This is exhaustion
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disguised as control. Paul discovered
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something that reordered his entire
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existence. He wrote, "I rejoiced greatly
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in the Lord that at last you renewed
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your concern for me. Indeed, you were
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concerned, but you had no opportunity to
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show it. I am not saying this because I
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am in need, for I have learned to be
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content, whatever the circumstances.
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Philippians chapters 4. Not because his
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circumstances became comfortable, but
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because he released his grip on the
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outcome. When you surrender everything
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to God, your plans, your timeline, your
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image, your security, something lifts,
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not your circumstances, your burden,
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because you are no longer responsible
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for orchestrating your own salvation.
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You are no longer the atlas holding up
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your own world. There is a lightness
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that comes only through complete
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release. Not the lightness of not
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caring, but the lightness of having
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placed what matters into hands stronger
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than yours. This is the freedom no
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amount of control can purchase. It is
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the peace that guards your heart, as
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Paul writes, not the peace of having
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everything figured out, the peace of
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having finally stopped needing to figure
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it out alone.
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