Yesterday, you admitted what most of us avoid: there's a ceiling. Today's good news is that the door was never locked from His side.
The Misconception: Being Told I'm Free Is the Same as Knowing I'm Free
Many believers can quote the verses about freedom. We know we're forgiven. We could explain the cross. And yet we live like we're still inside the cell, because somewhere between the head and the heart, the information never became a door we walked through.
There's a difference between being told you're free and knowing it. One is information. The other is an experience.
The Man Who Thought It Was a Vision
Acts 12 tells the story of Peter in prison. He's chained between two soldiers. Guards stand at the door. An angel appears, light fills the cell, and Peter's chains fall off his wrists. The angel tells him to get dressed, put on his sandals, and follow. Verse 9 says Peter followed him out, "but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision."
They walk past the first guard, then the second, and come to the iron gate that leads to the city. "It opened for them by itself."
Only when Peter is standing in the street, with the angel gone, does he come to himself and say: "Now I know without a doubt that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me."
Peter was free before he knew it. The chains were already off. The gate was already open. He just didn't believe it until he stepped out.
Reaching for the Real Thing
"FREE" by Leslie Perez sounds like someone reaching for exactly that. She says she knows this is love, but the way He shows it opens something that had been shut, and He is the key. What she thought she knew was only one shape. There's more of Him to get to know. She pushes back on the idea that what's old has lost its power for today, and feels a gravity pulling her out of whatever was keeping her far away and into His arms. She asks, honestly, what it would take to feel free.
Notice the question. It isn't what do I have to do? It's closer to show me. She's asking to be shown, not to earn it. The key isn't her effort. It's Him.
Name the Locked Door
Here's a simple way to start. This week, ask: What am I treating as locked that He has already opened? A conversation. A calling. A kind of prayer you've been told isn't for you. A hope you've quietly stopped asking for. Write it down.
Then take one step toward it. Peter didn't understand it yet. He just followed.
This is Chapter Two of THERE'S MORE. Tomorrow: why free people can't stay quiet.
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