Only then do we have true freedom. Leave your foolish way and you will live. Forsake the foolish ways that you have and you will live. In other words, if we cling to God's ways we are going to live. If we forsake the ways of the world.
Obedience is the fountain of genuine freedom.
When I was a boy I found that I had a lot more freedom when I obeyed my mother than when I did not. I seemed to value my freedoms more when I was standing with my nose in the corner. There was nothing to look at. I guess I did a lot of thinking that brought me to where I am today, in those corners. Even in that one-room church school in Indiana, I remember standing in the corner.