How does surrendering to God result in freedom?

I don't think I've read anything that puts it in better terms:

"The governing principal is, submission puts one under the authority of the one to whom we submit, and we get whatever the character of that one dictates. If we submit to Satan, or to a human serving Him, the result of our submission is captivity. But if the one submitted to is God, our submission results in freedom, since it is the character of God to set people free. What seems like a contradiction, then, is not, if it is to the freedom-giver that we submit."-Charles Kraft