“The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners…” (Isaiah 61)

Prop: Big Box (Bigger the Better)

I have here a box. If I were to step inside of it and close it up, not only can’t we see each other, but my life will become very limited and very narrow.

And yet, this is the way many of us live our lives today –closed off, shuttered, hiding, protecting ourselves from others.

Sometimes we do it intentionally. Sometimes we do it because we are hiding from God and ourselves. Whatever the reason we climb into our boxes, before you know it, we have become victims of ourselves, trapped in prisons of our own m…