Psalm 116.16

Your servant, Lord, your servant am I;

you have loosened my bonds.

Reflection

When Christ healed Peter's mother-in-law of a fever she immediately got up and waited on him. (Matthew 8.14-15)  Healed for service, not healed as an end in itself.

Freed from what bondage?  Bondage to sin, bondage to fear, bondage to addiction, the world, to self.  Freed from all bondage - glorious freedom!  Free children of God, but not without mission or activity.  Not free to do as we wish but free to serve.  If this causes you sadness your bonds remain.