Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Daily Devotional
If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us. ?Numbers 14:8
Eugene Cussons rescues chimpanzees. Orphaned by those in the business of bush-meat trade and taken from the jungle as infants, many have lived their entire lives confined in a space smaller than a prison cell. When Cussons arrives to take them to the game reserve he calls ?Chimp Eden,? he often finds them hostile and untrusting.
?These chimps don?t realize that I am one of the good guys,? Cussons says. When he tries to put them into a smaller crate for the trip to their new home, they put up quite a fight. ?They don?t know that I?m going to take them back to Chimp Eden and give them a life so much better.?
On a much grander scale, God?s offer to liberate us from the slavery of sin is often met with resistance. When He rescued the children of Israel from Egypt, God took them through difficult places that caused them to doubt His good intentions. ?Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?? they cried (Num. 14:3).
On our journey of faith, there are times when the ?freedom? of sin that we left behind is more appealing than the restrictions of faith that lie ahead. We must trust the protective boundaries found in God?s Word as the only way to get to the place of ultimate freedom. ? Julie Ackerman Link
Sin?s lure may look like freedom
But in its grip we?re bound;
It?s when we?re bound to Jesus
Real freedom will be found. ?D. De Haan
Obedience to God is the key to freedom.