Redeemed

I am redeemed, you set me free

So I'll shake off these heavy chains and 

Wipe away every stain

Cause I'm not who I used to be

I am redeemed.....I'm redeemed.  

Redeemed. "To buy out," especially for purchasing a slave with a view to his freedom. 

I was a slave. Anger was my master. I walked where it wanted me to walk. I talked like it wanted me to talk. I hated like it asked me to hate. 

I was a slave. Covetousness was my master. I desired and lusted after objects. Consumed by envy over what I was without. Hating those who had more than me. Defeated.

I was a slave. Insecurity was my master. I would not let people see me. I did not want to embrace women as friends. I put on my fake smile all the while slowly dying away on the inside. 

At some point you think, "maybe this is the best it ever gets." This could be normal. The master beats you down so low that even when you can escape, you won't. 

They say call on Him and He will save you. But maybe just maybe the darkness doesn't want to be saved. It's comfortable in the dark. No one really questions you in the dark. You can tell them everything is fine and they believe. 

Part of you screams from your soul. Just rescue me! Just see me. Even though you have no idea what it is you need rescuing from. 

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God. John 3: 19-21

The deeds are just deeds. The living is your whole self in the everyday walk through this world. 

Fear is a lie. God did not give us a spirit of fear. Bring it to the light. Just one thing at a time. The more you expose it to Christ the more His blood pours out covering you. He broke and bled so we could be free. 

God sent a savior. Not to condemn the world but to save the world through him. John 3:17

You are not judged you are saved. It's already been done. I can tell you He Loves. 

If our Father does not judge, then who are we to judge? We are called out of bondage. The chains that bind you should only be bound to Jesus.

I am not longer a slave to the enemy. I am an ambassador for Jesus. 

For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that in this I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. Ephesians 6:2