On August 5, 2009, "the most difficult, heart-wrenching days" were over for two US journalists. Laura Ling and Euna Lee landed in the US, after having been freed by North Korea for illegally entering the country. They had been held captive for 140 days and had been sentenced to 12 years of hard labor. It is hard to imagine what it was like for them as they spent each day alone in fear and in hunger, uncertain whether the next person to appear would take them to the labor camp.

When someone did come, they were only told that they were going to a "meeting." The two were "shocked" when they entered a room face-to-face with former president Bill Clinton.

"But we knew instantly in our hearts that the nightmare of our lives was finally coming to an end, and now we stand here, home and free," Ling said.

How many Christians have experienced the same thing? We live our days plagued by fear, uncertainty, and spiritual hunger. We make choices that hold us fast in places that we never should have gone, unable to get out. But then we catch sight of our savior. It is just the sight of him that tells us everything we need to know: we will be free. Just as with the journalists, we may not know the process to be followed or how long it will take, but it is only a matter of time. Jesus, the ambassador of the Father, has stepped into our lives, which have gone horribly wrong, in order to secure our freedom and to bring us home.

2 Corinthians 3:16-17 says,

"But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is s freedom." (ESV)