Setting Prisoners Free
By Tomm | October 18, 2025 | Comments 0 Comment
God sets the solitary in families; He brings out those who are bound into prosperity; But the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Psalm 68:6
Christ sets prisoners free. Our text speaks of God, ‘bringing out those who are bound.’ The idea is that they are prisoners in need of liberation. They cannot free themselves, nor can any human device, scheme, or plan accomplish it. Why is that so? The things which bind the prisoners whom Christ sets free are beyond what human ability can successfully address. The loneliness is a soul-loneliness. The isolation is deeper than even human company can satisfy. It transcends the circumstances, and remedies what humanity would contrive to address it. God alone can do this work and Christ, the Son of God has come to accomplish it. Thus, when Christ took up the Scripture in His hometown of Nazareth, He read, ‘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.’ His commentary on this passage began with, ‘Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.’ Christ came to set prisoners free, and so He does. Millions of people, past and present, testify that Christ has made them free and they are free indeed. Thus Christ has become the central figure of their life. He has done what no one else could do. He has freed the prisoners.
Our Glorious, Living Christ,
we rejoice that You set the prisoners free.
We praise You that in every way,
You bring liberty to those who were bound.
Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning