Posted: 27 Feb 2013 12:00 AM PST
There is no greater mockery than to call a sinner a free man. Show me
a convict toiling in the chain gang, and call him a free man if you
will; point out to me the galley slave chained to the oar, and smarting
under the taskmaster’s lash whenever he pauses to draw breath, and call
him a free man if you will; but never call a sinner a free man, even in
his will, so long as he is the slave of his own corruptions. In our
natural state, we wore chains, not upon our limbs, but upon our hearts,
fetters that bound us, and kept us from God, from rest, from peace, from
holiness, from anything like freedom of heart and conscience and will.
The iron entered into our soul; and there is no slavery as terrible as
that. As there is no freedom like the freedom of the spirit, so is there
no slavery that is at all comparable to the bondage of the heart.
C.H. Spurgeon
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