To Set Free the Oppressed

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There is far more glory in taking someone out of a cage than putting someone in one. Far more glory in breaking chains than shackling them. Far more glory in overthrowing tyranny than becoming a tyrant.

Far more glory in liberation than subjugation. 

This is because it is often harder to do, as well as the joy and relief liberty brings in comparison to the misery and pain of subjugation.

There is no joy in oppression, and no happiness in slavery. Naturally these things are ungodly things and run counter to the objectives of a loving God.

In fact, from my understanding, God created all of existence as a massive platform for His love, liberty, and glory. A place where these things can be exercised, made manifest, and shared amongst the whole of His creation.


Setting the oppressed free fulfills all three of these things. It is an immense act of love to bring liberty to those who previously didn't have it. It is also an immense act of glory, at times, to initiate and partake in acts of liberation or emancipation of the subjugated and oppressed. People remember Normandy 1944 with a lot more reverance than Poland 1939. 

It will always be far more glorious and godly to liberate than to conquer because it is far more glorious and godly to give than to take. Liberation is always an act of giving (the giving of liberty), an act of grace, while conquest is almost always an act of taking, of theft even. Giving is grace, and grace being an essential component of God's nature is always tied to His glory.

For me, one of my dreams of Heaven is to go from world to world and culture to culture and liberate the oppressed and enslaved of those worlds. Be an agent of liberty and enter in and out of those worlds breaking chains and taking people out of captivity and bondage. I would do this for as long as God allows it and go amongst as many worlds as I could think of and shatter the chains of oppression and injustice and overthrow the agents of tyranny and fear.

I would do this because there are few things more glorious than liberation, few things more glorious than vanquishing tyranny, and few things more glorious than delivering the subjugated out of slavery. 

I want to follow in the footsteps of Jesus, the original "world liberator." His glory far surpasses any that I've seen in this world, and any that I could ever imagine.

   “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed"

Luke 4:18



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