Free at Last

"Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"  These words come from the old Negro spiritual, Free at Last, but most of us remember them as the theme and the closing to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous 1963, “I have a Dream“, speech. The war against racial discrimination was raging in our nation, and as history reminds us, there were many casualties.  Man has always had the need to dominate, enslaving those weaker than themselves. Within those prisons, whose bars are forged from hatred, bigotry and “moral superiority”, innocents have long been held captive.  In the spiritual realm, men are still existing behind invisible barriers, with Satan as jailer.  Christ came to free the captives, and to bring them into His glorious emancipation.  MLK was following Christ’s mission, and he made it his battle cry.  There are, even now, those who choose to remain incarcerated.  It is still our duty,  as Christ’s followers, to release them…we have the keys, and the authority to use them. “The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners…” Isaiah 61:1.  Let’s rattle some cells today!