Thanking God for Freedom
As we recover from Thanksgiving, continue eating leftover turkey, and start to think about Christmas, I hope we are still maintaining an attitude of thankfulness. We should thank God for our country and the freedom we have to spread the Gospel. We can talk about God. We can worship as we please. We can gather together for fellowship without fear of the government breaking it up. We should thank God for our freedom.
But I'm thinking of an even more significant freedom which God has given us. In Romans 6:17, Paul says, "But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you." We as believers ought to thank God for the freedom we have from the punishment and power of sin.
Before we were saved, we were the slaves ("servants") of sin. We did what it said when it said to do it. We had no choice. We were slaves! However, God's regenerating power broke the power of sin's domination.
Now, instead of mindlessly slaving away at sin's bidding, we obey God from the heart. The "doctrine which was delivered to us" (the Gospel which we have been taught) has set us free from the slavery of sin. While we used to be slaves to sin, now we joyfully, willingly, and thankfully serve God!
We should be thankful for the freedom we have in this country. But we should be even more thankful to God for the freedom we have from sin. We no longer have to obey sin. We can now present our bodies to God to do what is right. "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service" (Rom 12:1).
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