Get your foot off my neck

I am thinking of freedom, which is such a loose word nowadays.  I hear it talked about like all you  have to do is be free.  I liken it to a dog chained to a fence, just inches away from his food bowl.  The person says be free and eat until you are full, but they never unhook the chain.  Someone with some sense, goes to the dog and unhooks the chain.  Now the dog can be free.  Talk is cheap. It is easier to say to someone, "be free", but you still have them in situations that enslave them to your benefit.  Freeing a person, sometimes means that you are allowing them to walk away to your detriment.  I remember being in a situation where someone in my life greatly benefitted from my poverty.  She wanted me to be free within the boundary that kept me a bit inferior to her.  She wanted me free, but not completely free, well, Jesus came and set me free.  He cut through all the red tape and set me free.  He set me free indeed.