Selfless Faith

Slavery is such an ugly thing. To know people were taken from their land, to be brought to a totally different land to work for no money, and be beaten when not in compliance with the unjust rules set forth: this is just a nice version of the entire situation.

Thank God for working in the hearts of those who were part of abolishing slavery. God does not want to see His people suffer and He will deliver them as he always does as He delivered the nation of Israel out of Egypt.

However, although slavery has been abolished, why are we still all slaves. Although we are getting paid for work that we do, we barely get to see any of the income we make.  It all goes to our slave owners and instead of calling them master, we call them Chase, Wells Fargo, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Chevy, Ford, Honda, Toyota, mortgage payments, health and death insurance, and so much more that we worship as our false gods. We are a slave to our wants and desires so we can look good in front of people. Our self-esteem is so low that we spend all that we have to  impress (express to) people who really don’t care about us.

So we are paying all this money for our houses, cars, jewelry, and everything else in between. So now we get two or three jobs to make the money to feed our gods. What a crazy cycle! Do our pride and ego devour us or what?

My dear friends, slow down and breathe. We work so hard to try to gain the world, but we lose our soul in the process. We compromise what God wants for us so we can gain what means nothing to Him. We lose sight of our loved ones so we can provide for them, but in the process of providing all the materialistic things of this world that is passing away, we no longer know our wives or husbands, boyfriends or girlfriends, and most commonly our sons or daughters.

Now when something dramatic happens in our lives, we are very surprised. So many times it is said, “My husband (or wife) would never do anything like that” or “my child could never do the things they are accusing him (or her) of.” How do we know what the people we are physically close to but emotionally and spiritually distant from are capable of? We place fancy sneakers and clothes on our kids, but when they are caught doing drugs, stealing, having sex, and much more, we don’t want to believe it. Well we’d better believe it. God has a way of opening up our eyes by shaking up our lives in the worst way possible because that is the only way he can get our attention as we are so “busy”. What other way will we listen?

So now while we are slaves to everybody that we owe, we have no time to be slaves of Christ Jesus. If we allowed Him to live in us, we would see what is really important. Everyone makes it seem so bad to downgrade but it seems like downgrading our physical lives will upgrade our spiritual lives. All physical and earthly possessions will pass away but our spirits have everlasting eternal life.

There is only one person who is worthy of being a slave to and that is our Lord Christ Jesus. He has truly set us free from all of our slavery to sin and all our bondages. We are so unworthy of the Man so pure who shed His blood for us, although He has set us free. I would rather not be free, but to be a slave, a bond servant to the Lord who loves me more than ever imaginable, who delivers me from ALL harm and evil, to carry out not my will, but His will.

² If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years; and in the seventh he shall go out free and pay nothing. ³ If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. ⁴ If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself. ⁵ But if the servant plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ ⁶ then his master shall bring him to the judges. He shall also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him forever. Exodus 21:2-6

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