I saw the Jerry Springer show for the first time the other night. What an interesting experience.

The show was dealing with bondage and people who like to dominate others. There was a woman who introduced another woman . . . on a leash . . . as her pet and slave. They were the same race and sex, so the stereotypes don’t apply. But what was amazing is that this person, who had the freedom to get off her knees, take the collar from around her neck, and toss the chain aside . . .didn’t.

It was such an incredible statement about people who walk around with invisible collars on their necks, held captive to addictions or weaknesses.

We have the power to break the bonds of oppression, and control, but we don’t. Jesus said, “I came to give you life and give it more abundantly . . .I came to set the captives free.” He wasn’t just talking about the obvious captives, like this poor girl, he was talking about everyone who is held captive to their own insecurities, self-doubts, rejections, fears, and oppressions.

You have a choice to live free or . . . die a slave. Christ is the liberator . . . Satan the enslaver who came to steal, kill and destroy. Who do you serve?