Good Morning!! What has you?...What's holding you down or back? Slavery can take many
forms. Have you seen people, pace back and forth smoking one cigarette
after another?,...In bondage to nicotine. Or how about a divorced person
that keeps trying to destroy their "ex", with lawsuits, defamation, and
threats. Bitterness has them in bondage. Surly you know someone
who suffers from some eating disorder,...obsessions with their
bodies, controlling them. Many suffer from bondage to materialism,
craving whatever tempts the eye. Other cruel masters are envy, jealousy,
hatred, sex, gambling. If you feel yourself slipping into despair at
any of these things, cry out to God for freedom.
Though you used to be slaves to sin, you . . . have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.—Romans 6:17-18 (NIV)
Though you used to be slaves to sin, you . . . have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.—Romans 6:17-18 (NIV)
God told Moses, "I
have indeed seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard
their groaning and have come down to set them free" (Acts 7:34). How
seriously did God mean this? Exodus 12 says that God kept vigil that
night to get the children of Israel out of bondage. I see this as
evidence of a 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year commitment on God's part.
God still commands every tyrant in our lives, "Let my people go" and
says to the captives, "Come out," and to those in darkness, "Be free!".
God wants to set us free from anything that keeps us in bondage.(Mary D. MacKinnon)
" The most important question is not whether God can deliver you out of the pit.
The most important question is whether you are going to call out to God in humility,...or are you going to simply gripe, murmur and complain? "
"Returning good for good is human,...returning good for evil is divine."
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