Crazy concept when I say I serve someone huh?
Romans 6:18 (The Message)
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!
So many people say they are free. Hmmmmm. So where did addiction come from? We all say we can stop at anytime. If we could we wouldn't need rehab for drugs, sex, overeating, alcohol, gambling, shopping, smoking, etc. You name it they have rehab for it. We have patches and gums and shots and Pavlov tricks to help us try to break our addictions (sounds like being enslaved to me).
But I don't do those things....
How many times a day do you check your facebook page or twitter? What would you do if one day you left your cellphone home by accident? I bet you would go back home (or at least would want to) to get it. Don't you just have to see your favorite show on TV?
What's crazy is often times we don't realize the hold things have over us. We get used to being controlled by them.
Am I guilty of going back for my phone and checking facebook a little too often? Yep. I won't lie. But I've also turned my phone off for days at a time and not been on facebook for weeks sometimes.
I decided to serve a different master when I was a little girl and it has made a HUGE difference in the decisions I have made. Sometimes I've gotten off track but I always know because suddenly it will feel like the walls are starting to close in around me. And then I say, Lord show me what to do. And He leads me out to fresh air and open space.
Freedom. Can you smell it?
We are taught that being a child of God is restrictive and you can't do what you want. I wanna have sex. Ok, along with that comes STDs, babies, AIDs, broken hearts, and shattered lives. Doesn't really sound like freedom to me. I wanna drink and party. Ok, I can see DUIs, waking up next to strangers, hangovers, and blackouts in your future. Doesn't sound like freedom to me.
I'm not judging. I just want to open your eyes to another choice. Another reality.
You may see consulting Christ on decisions as tedious and time consuming and cramping your style but..
It could save you heartache and pain.
Hey, but what do I know.
Romans 6:22-23 (The Message)
But now that you've found you don't have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God's gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.
I invite you to accept God's gift. He might surprise you.
Romans 6:18 (The Message)
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!
So many people say they are free. Hmmmmm. So where did addiction come from? We all say we can stop at anytime. If we could we wouldn't need rehab for drugs, sex, overeating, alcohol, gambling, shopping, smoking, etc. You name it they have rehab for it. We have patches and gums and shots and Pavlov tricks to help us try to break our addictions (sounds like being enslaved to me).
But I don't do those things....
How many times a day do you check your facebook page or twitter? What would you do if one day you left your cellphone home by accident? I bet you would go back home (or at least would want to) to get it. Don't you just have to see your favorite show on TV?
What's crazy is often times we don't realize the hold things have over us. We get used to being controlled by them.
Am I guilty of going back for my phone and checking facebook a little too often? Yep. I won't lie. But I've also turned my phone off for days at a time and not been on facebook for weeks sometimes.
I decided to serve a different master when I was a little girl and it has made a HUGE difference in the decisions I have made. Sometimes I've gotten off track but I always know because suddenly it will feel like the walls are starting to close in around me. And then I say, Lord show me what to do. And He leads me out to fresh air and open space.
Freedom. Can you smell it?
We are taught that being a child of God is restrictive and you can't do what you want. I wanna have sex. Ok, along with that comes STDs, babies, AIDs, broken hearts, and shattered lives. Doesn't really sound like freedom to me. I wanna drink and party. Ok, I can see DUIs, waking up next to strangers, hangovers, and blackouts in your future. Doesn't sound like freedom to me.
I'm not judging. I just want to open your eyes to another choice. Another reality.
You may see consulting Christ on decisions as tedious and time consuming and cramping your style but..
It could save you heartache and pain.
Hey, but what do I know.
Romans 6:22-23 (The Message)
But now that you've found you don't have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God's gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.
I invite you to accept God's gift. He might surprise you.
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