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As bitcoiners, we love freedom and self-sovereignty.

Saving in bitcoin will give you greater financial freedom, but without Christ, it’s hollow.

Christian freedom is paradoxical. One must give it up to find it. George Matheson’s hymn, Make Me a Captive, Lord (1890), captures it well:

Make me a captive, Lord,
And then I shall be free;
Force me to render up my sword,
And I shall conqu'ror be.
I sink in life's alarms
When by myself I stand;
Imprison me within Thine arms,
And strong shall be my hand.

My heart is weak and poor
Until it master find;
It has no spring of action sure,
It varies with the wind.
It cannot freely move
Till Thou hast wrought its chain;
Enslave it with Thy matchless love,
And deathless it shall reign.

My will is not my own
Till Thou hast made it Thine;
If it would reach a monarch's throne,
It must its crown resign.
It only stands unbent
Amid the clashing strife,
When on Thy bosom it has leant,
And found in Thee its life.