So, since were out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since were free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind? Hardly. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and its your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives youve let sin tell you what to do. But thank God youve started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom! Im using this freedom language because its easy to picture. You can readily recall, cant you, how at one time the more you did just what you felt like doing - not caring about others, not caring about God - the worse your life became and the less freedom you had? And how much different is it now as you live in Gods freedom, your lives healed and expansive in holiness? As long as you did what you felt like doing, ignoring God, you didnt have to bother with right thinking or right living, or right anything for that matter. But do you call that a free life? What did you get out of it? Nothing youre proud of now. Where did it get you? A dead end. But now that youve found you dont have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But Gods gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master. (Rom 6:15-23 msg)
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:17:46 +0000
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