True Slavery / True Freedom

"Submitting self to God is the only real freedom--because the deepest slavery is self-dependence, self-reliance. When you live your life believing that everything (family, finances, relationships, career) depends primarily on you, you're enslaved to your strengths and weaknesses. You're trying to be your own savior. Freedom comes when we start trusting in God's abilities and wisdom instead of our own. Real life begins when we transfer our trust from our own efforts to the efforts of Christ". Tullian Tchividjian in "Surprised by Grace".

Let Us Not Exchange the Truth of God For a Lie

Our enemy seeks to distort our view of God and our understanding of His gracious character. The result is that our disposition toward God becomes twisted. We begin to think about God, and respond to Him, as though He had the identity of the Evil One. Satan's plan is to blind us to God's grace and diminish our trust in Him, crushing our love for Him and destroying all the pleasures of grace.

From "By Grace Alone" by Sinclair Ferguson