FREE TO SERVE
Gal. 5:13 For you have been called to live in freedom--not freedom
to satisfy your sinful nature, but freedom to serve one another in love. NLT
Here is a truth we
must know well. We have great freedom in
Christ, but not freedom to indulge in sin.
Sin has always been, and always will be, unacceptable to God. Sin condemns the soul to hell, it alienates
us from God. Sin is always bad for us
and should always be considered our enemy and not our friend.
We are free in Christ, free to indulge
ourselves in the richness of Christ’s love and grace. We are free to resist sin and pursue
godliness. We are free to grasp the
truthfulness of God’s Word and how to live it out in our lives. We are free to understand the value of our
eternal souls and the preciousness of human life. We are free to value the things that God
values. We are free to enjoy the true
meaning of love, joy, and peace that only are found in Christ. We are free to know the joys of serving others
and not others serving us.
We so often miss this
latter point. Serving others is a great
measuring stick of how well we are living in Christ. In Christ, we have a natural desire to reach
out and help others. Next to God, we are
to love others and you cannot love others without being involved and serving
them.
Sin darkens the soul
and binds us up in that darkness so that we cannot grasp these things. Sin enslaves us and deceives us into thinking
that our enslavement is true freedom. Sin
keeps us away from experiencing true freedom, the freedom of knowing God and
the wonders of His life in us. When
Jesus sets us free from sin, we are truly free.
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