Comedian and Hollywood actor Russell Brand commented on his Christian faith in a video posted to his 4.4 million Instagram followers on Wednesday, saying, “I don’t belong to myself anymore, and that is true freedom.”
“There are times when I’ve told you that I felt far for Christ,” Brand began in his video. “This is a verse that brought me back into connection with our Lord. It’s from Isaiah. ‘Fear not, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.’”
Brand went on to explain, “My feelings of faith have altered lately, because I’ve had the sense that through fear I might take back my self will, that I might — through fear — think I have to be in control of the situation.”
“If you feel that you are being attacked, if you are under threat, it seems obvious, rationale, sensible, to take back control,” the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star continued. “But the sensation of faith — allowing Christ in His sub-molecular potency, right down to the granule, right out into the cosmological, to order all things, for we are dealing with the King of eternity.” […]
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