In previous chapters Paul laid out the amazing “catalogue” of blessings we have in Christ, showing us all that we already possess simply because we are in Him. From the position of unearned grace, we have so much as members of God’s household. We can’t get more blessed and we can’t get any higher! We are ​seated in the heavenly realm in Christ. Now, knowing how to sit in the fullness of being in Christ… ​we walk! There is no victim mentality displayed here by Paul. No, he doesn’t see himself as a prisoner of Rome or of any man, but rather he sees himself as a prisoner of the Lord. He knows he is guided and directed by God and therefore he is in the center of God’s will, whether freely preaching or bound in chains. Real freedom is being a “prisoner of the Lord”!