Ian’s blog – Breaking the bondage of Slavery
Posted on August 27th, 2010.
It is too much to bear to think about slavery. It grieves my heart and God’s heart to see people enslaved. I am tired of seeing people mistreat others. I would like to see the world be free and like to be free.
I want people to realize what they are doing to themselves and toward others. So many people are harming themselves with drugs or commiting suicide or harming themselves with beer and alcohol. It is not the answer to your life problem and it will make things worse in your own life. The only answer is Jesus and God. True freedom lies in this.
Jesus reveals God’s heart for us in Matthew when He tells us about the most important command.
“Jesus said, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.’ This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ These two commands are pegs; everything in God’s Law and the Prophets hangs from them.” - Matthew 22:34-36
“So, since we’re out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we’re 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 it’s your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives you’ve let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you’ve started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!” – Romans 6:15-18
*Ian Hamp volunteers every week at Sower if Seeds International
He is a guest writer on the SOS blog. He likes expressing God’s heart.
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