Freedom | Greed | Sin | Submission | Worldliness

SPIRITUAL FREEDOM
During a three week stay in Africa, we spent one afternoon in a game park near Nairobi. There we heard how monkeys are captured for zoos in the United States. A shining metallic object is placed in a long-necked jar tied to a tree. As monkeys swing through the trees, their eyes catch the reflection of the sun on the shining object. Reaching into the jar poses no problem to them, but when they try to bring their closed fists through the narrow openings, they can’t make it. To gain freedom, all the monkeys need to do is to let go of the worthless object. Instead, the monkeys sit by the jar holding onto the object until their captors come to take them away. Sometimes we exhange spiritual freedom for some worthless (from an eternal perspective) desire, ambition, or thing. For one reason or another we are not willing to give over every area of life to the lordship of Christ. We…