O Lord, I am your servant;
I am your servant, the son of your maidservant.
You have loosed my bonds.
Truth: We have been set free
There is nothing worse than bondage. Being locked up in a prison is, outside of death, the worse punishment. Perhaps, something worse than death and punishment behind bars, is being visible free, but spiritually in bondage. Being in bondage to your fears, sins, habits and/or human nature, is incredibly wretched. In the above passage the writer recognizes that he is, based upon his faith, a child of God: As a child of God he is free!!! Note the following verses in the Old and New Testament that talk about the freedom God gives us through His Son, Jesus. We are free. By faith in Christ we have a freedom that we often experience, practically. As we read these verses we need to, by faith, claim their truth and in faith walk in the freedom we have been given at the expense of Christ's work:
Isaiah 58:6
“Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?
Romans 6:20-22
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
1 Peter 2:16
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
We are free. We should rejoice in our freedom and live as though we are free men. We can't use our freedom to do was we want, as we are now slaves to righteousness, not slaves to sin. But, the sin that defined us is no longer in control over us. Live as free men!!!
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