Chains

Lord I falter and I fall down
Then I hold on to the chains you broke
When You came down and saved my soul
Save my soul

Hallelujah
We are free to struggle
We're not struggling to be free
Your blood bought and makes us children
So children drop your chains and sing

~The Struggle by Tenth Avenue North~

 

I heard this song this morning and it really sank in.

 

God sets us free from struggles yet we sit here and we hold on to our chains. Why? Why do we hold on to the things we have been trying to change or move past? We are free to struggle but we don't have to! His blood has covered us and we are made new. I am so guilty of strangling myself in the chains I am holding on to. God has broke them free, yet I won't put them down and move on. I sit there holding on to them, and continue to struggle on things that are useless.

But today I am going to stop struggling and realize I am free!

 

Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, Daughter Zion, now a captive. Isaiah 52:2

 

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 2 Corinthian 5:17