“You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
"I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
I love Dicken's choice of words. God gave us free will and we choose how to live our lives, yet not realizing some of our choices are like chains weighing us down. This ghost was heavily laden with chains of his past life accumulated link by link and yard by yard. He was forever fettered. What a picture of remorse and despair.
We know as believers that our chains have been broken by Jesus' blood and we will never be fettered like that. At times we may feel as the chains of life are getting us down but we know who can break those chains and set us free and we will never be forever chained to this earthly life.
Jesus was the greatest pebble in our waters of life. Touching all our hearts eternally and freeing us from the evil around us. His actions echo on and on forever and ever. A ripple that has the power to break chains and free us, a ripple that loves and heals and saves us. I have to end with Charles Dicken's closing, "God bless us all, everyone."
Psalm 107: 10-14
"There were those who dwelt in the darkness and in the shadow of death. Prisoners in misery and chains, because they had rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the Most High. Therefore he humbled their heart with labor, they stumbled and there was none to help. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble; He saved them out of their distresses. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke their bands apart."
