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Beating Slavery...

Nobody wants to be a slave, but since that fateful day in the Garden of Eden, we have all experienced bondage. Eve found out that a simple apple and a slimy snake would become her chains... Adam found out that a beautiful woman and the failure to say no... would be his end...

We all have found slavery in such simple things... a pill.. a dollar.. a thought.. a grudge.. a failure.. s bottle.. Though we are not led daily to a beating post for our misgivings, we truly understand the yearning for freedom..

We may not be whipped and beaten in a literal sense, but sometimes... on the way home from work.. we may feel as if we have... Slavery has always come with a price and that is the lack of being free... Whether we feel like slaves at work, home, or with personal struggles... their is a Master who hears our cries... He has not just thrown us to the wolves.. He comes and looks for us... even though we've run away.. given up.. He still chases us..

Why is it that a Holy God cares to chase us?? It is solely because he loves us.. And where we fall short... He is our "safety"...

As slaves, we all have earthly "masters" or bosses (supervisors, manager, etc)... Eph 6:5 says to "obey your earthly masters with respect and fear as you would the Lord". Wow!! really?? like I dont know if Paul knew what some of our bosses were like...but he goes on to say "obey them, not just to find favor with them when their eye is on you, but like slaves of Christ doing the will of God from your heart".

Intent is what is important here. Anyone can do the right thing when someone is looking, but how many of us do the right thing when no one is looking... maybe if we begin to be slaves for Christ... our slavery to simple things... will be released....

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