>From Slavery to Servanthood
by Steve Arterburn
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
freedom. 2 Corinthians 3:17
Imagine the scene: A broken man awakens one morning with no options. Hopeless,
owning nothing but an empty stomach, he stands starkly upon the auctioneer's
block as a slave. Shoulders slumped, pride stripped away, gaunt eyes staring
aimlessly into the distance, his ashen face conveys only shame.
Suddenly, a man with gentle eyes appears, and this man sees value and potential
in this broken man. "Did I see a spark of something in that man's eyes?"
the slave wonders. It couldn't be, but his hope rises as the gentle man pays
the price, brings him home, clothes him, and feeds him richly. His master
does love him!
Do you recognize this picture? I hope so. It's a picture of your life in
Christ. You and I were once slaves on the auction block of sin. We stood broken
by sin. Yet our loving and gentle Master-for reasons we may never know, and for
reasons not found in us-saw value in us. And He paid for our freedom with
His own blood, on a cross.
Through Jesus Christ, we've been freed from bondage. But that's not the end,
only the beginning. We must move on and ask the question, "What have we been
freed for?" The answer: for Jesus Christ!
We've been freed by Christ, for Christ. That is, so we might serve Him, praise
Him, and give Him glory.
"To obey God is Freedom." - Seneca the Younger (5 B.C.-A.D. 65)
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