We are only truly free when we submit to God

"In The Freedom of the Will [by Jonathan Edwards], the point is that humans are really only ever truly free when they submit to the will of God. This is a basic discipleship point, but it needs to be pressed in our current environment as a matter of first importance. "It is a lie that we are free without God. We are merely slaves to our whims, which are set by our genetic make-up, our evironment, even our parents. "Only God's will, and the personal assertion of faith in God's will, only his involvement and our trust in that, can transform our macabre 'matrix' into a masterful display of God's glory and genuine freedom." -- Josh Moody, "The God-centered Life"