Al Mohler has an editorial here elaborating on the necessity of order for true liberty to exist.

“order is a necessary prerequisite to liberty. Without order, liberty is impossible, and the only liberty that can survive over time is an ordered liberty—which means liberty grounded in something substantial . . . Modern Americans often misinterpret, not only Independence Day, but independence itself. The way many Americans tell the story claims that Americans sought to break with Britain and King George III through some act of national exuberance or libertarian utopianism. The founders of the nation did, as a matter of fact, declare a break with Britain. But the break they declared was not the undoing of one civilization and the founding of something breathtakingly new . . . At this point, the great danger to the American order is not external, though hostile powers do threaten. The real danger to the American order comes from within. The danger of decadence looms large and the arrogance of overreach, so tempting to great powers, is always close at hand . . . The greatest danger to the American order is the subversion of order itself. We are living in an age of unparalleled moral peril. Furthermore, we are living in a time of radical moral experimentation and a clash of toxic ideologies. Add to these perils the truth that many Americans living today do not even value order or acknowledge truth. Millions of Americans seem to believe that we can destroy America’s ordered liberty and replace it with disordered liberty—which is precisely what many people living today want and demand.“

Well said, Dr. Mohler. Similarly, the freedom that the gospel calls us to is not some chaotic version of “do anything you want” . . . but is an extraordinary freedom that opens the door to achieving our full potential as an image-bearer of God. Once we cut loose from truth, we lose our anchor and become rudderless ships drifting with storms and currents with shipwreck inevitable.