Too often we are enslaved by something and don’t even know
it. Even when we know it we don’t want to do anything about it. We accept it as
our new norm instead of putting out the effort to free ourselves from what it
is that has a hold on us.
The other day as I looked through old pictures of myself, I
noticed I have been overweight my entire adult life. Thirty years or more I’ve
been enslaved by something I just would not take the time to free myself from.
Once again isn’t that what Easter represents is the freedom
that Christ has set us free for. Not the freedom to do what we want but the
freedom from the enslavement of sin. God put the key in the door of that
entrapment to sin and unlocked it with the blood of Jesus Christ. However, for
some odd reason we remain standing in the jail cell that once held us. Indeed the
jail cell of sin wallpapered with our acts of doing whatever we wanted,
whenever we wanted and ignoring the commandments of God.
How foolish is that? Pretty foolish I must say. Every time I
eat what I shouldn’t be eating the clicking sound of the key to my cell needs
to go off in my heart. A sound to remind me whether I’m going to accept my
enslavement to food and bad eating habits or walk free out of my cell that God
already released me from.
We don’t need to be afraid, we need to be determined to take
action and truly find the opened door to our freedom in Christ. Daily by our
choices we need to accept our new norm of not allowing things like food, drugs,
alcohol, money, sex, attitudes, and more to control us.
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Free from
sin, not freedom to sin.
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