Four employees were held hostage at Swedish bank in 1973 when a botched bank robbery turned into a six-day standoff between the captors and the police. The incident, now decades past, would have been long forgotten save for an interesting twist.
The captors and captives bonded.
In fact, when one of the hostages spoke with the Swedish Prime Minister on the phone during the standoff, she said she trusted her captives fully, but feared she would die at the hands of the police.
She trusted her captors over her liberators.
The situation was so remarkable that it was dubbed “Stockholm Syndrome.”
It describes the implausible love of a captive for his captor.
It’s absurd.
But, I get it.
Sin is slavery. It takes me captive. It holds me hostage.
Yet, I choose it. I submit to it. I even love it.
The Bible says that we all do.
It’s a spiritual Stockholm Syndrome.
We have a Liberator. He offers us freedom. He is decidedly on our side.
Let’s call sin what it is – a Captor.
Let’s, instead, trust our Liberator. Let’s love Him. Let’s choose Him.
To do otherwise is absurd.
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