The Source Code Set Free

In 1989, a British scientist named Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN in Switzerland. What most people don't realize is the decision he made next — one that changed the course of human history. CERN owned the technology. Berners-Lee could have patented it, licensed it, charged every website, every browser, every click. Conservative estimates suggest he would have become the wealthiest person who ever lived.

Instead, on April 30, 1993, he convinced CERN to release the source code into the public domain. Free. No royalties. No restrictions. No gatekeepers. He gave away what he could have hoarded, and in doing so, he connected billions of people who would otherwise have remained isolated.

This is a faint echo of what the Almighty did through Christ. God held the source code to eternal life — the only path to reconciliation, the only way home. And rather than restricting access to those who could afford it or earn it, He released it freely. "It is finished," Jesus declared from the cross. Not "it is available for purchase." Not "terms and conditions apply." Finished. Open. Free.

Paul wrote to the Galatians, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free." Not freedom you download on a trial basis. Not freedom that expires after thirty days. Freedom written into the source code of the universe by the One who authored it — and given to anyone willing to receive it.