Hey, good morning. Happy Monday. I hope you had a great weekend. Welcome to the Kirk Cameron Show. This is Monday morning devotionals. I always like to start off my morning with my three favorite things. The word of God, a favorite devotional, and a little help in a cup. So, today, here’s the thought. Grace, that is the undeserved kindness of God is the only thing that can set you free from the nonsatisfying [Music] claustrophobia and the self-imposed prison of individualism and allow you to enjoy the fulfilling freedom and
satisfaction of loving and serving God. A lot of people think that freedom and liberty is about doing whatever you want, no rules. I I don’t have to follow somebody else’s rules and that leads to bondage. That’s just the way the world that God made actually affects us. When we think that we can be the God of our own world, we’ll come up with our own ten commandments.
We don’t have to follow God’s. That path always leads to a ditch, to a dumpster fire. If you have the attitude of it’s what I want when I want it and how I want it, that is going to lead you into a prison from which you’ll never get out and it will leave you lonely, miserable, and angry. So when God calls you and me to obey his commands and follow his ways, he’s not robbing us of liberty.
He’s actually leading us to the only place where we can possibly find it. At the end of the day, you and I need God to rescue us from us. We are our own worst enemy. To understand this, we’ve first got to understand what the scriptures tell us about our very nature and the nature of the world. We’re fallen. We’re broken.
And so is the world around us. And trying to live a life independent of God is like trying to drive a beautiful boat on the freeway. It could be a gorgeous boat, beautifully designed, filled with all kinds of great equipment, but if you try to drive it on a highway, you’re going to get nowhere fast and destroy the boat.
It wasn’t made for that. And you and I were not made to be individualistic and independent from God. We were made for joyful, submissive obedience to his commands. Think of your life right now. I can think of mine. Think of the areas where I’m trying to do things without God’s guidance, without submitting to his principles.
