False Freedom and True Liberation

There are two types of liberation. One is a false liberation, one is true freedom. One restrains, one releases. Certain movements which promise freedom often have this false freedom. It is not a freedom from what truly constrains; but freedom from imagined constraint, which becomes more restraining than that from which one was seeking freedom. Take, for example, a person wishing freedom from a spouse who seeks liberation in divorce. They find only constraint, much heavier restraint, in terms of alimony, child support, starting over, and the baggage of a "previous marriage." Such is false liberation.
Those seeking freedom from the earthly existence we bear called humanness must have true freedom in Christ. Any other type is the false liberty. Substances carry the burden of dependency, legalism carries the burden of inadequacy, every other type of seeking after the wind carries with it the false hope of freedom which becomes a weight heavier than those described as his own by Jacob Marley in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
Only true freedom comes from Christ. In our human state we are shackled--bound in sin. Christ's redeeming work on the cross has released us from our bondage and reconciled us to God. This is the only true liberation. He has done it all for us; our chains have been removed.
His forgiveness breaks down the prison walls, releases those enslaved, and seals our adoption as sons of the Father, brother of our Savior.