Daily Devotion - January 30, 2023

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound. (Isa. 61:1)

Imagine a man in jail, sitting there with men who are far more hardened than he is. This man is middle- aged but mentally on the level of a frightened and confused eight-year-old.

And now imagine another man in that same cell who sees this man weeping in terror. So, he gets up, goes over, and quietly whispers to him: “I don’t know what you are facing, but whatever it is, Jesus will help you through it if you trust him.”  

Soon after, that middle-aged man with an eight-year-old mind comes to Christ and is changed forever. That man is my brother. He’s still in jail for now, but his soul is free forever from God’s condemnation.

Prison bars did not keep God’s grace from reaching him. They also will not keep him from freedom – from any impairment of mind, any limitation of body, or any guilt of sin in his ultimate heavenly home with Jesus. 

Jesus promises the same freedoms to you, when you bind your heart to him by faith, claiming the exhilarating liberty of his provisions for this life and the life to come. Trusting Jesus for pardon from our sins, liberates our souls from guilt on earth and liberates soul, mind, and body from all this world’s pain in eternity!

Prayer: Lord, I know that I was in spiritual prison because of my sins, but you set me free! Thank you. Now please help me to live in the freedoms that are mine forever no matter the prisons of guilt or sin that beset me now.