Here is your to-do list for today and please do finish before I get back... I might have a guest sleep over, so, I need the whole house looking spic and span. Yes ma. She responded and walked briskly towards the kitchen to carry out her assignment This is not an uncommon scenario when we talk about the relationship between a master and his servant or a madam and her maid or house help.
A servant is expected to demonstrate total obedience when serving his master. In the part of the country where I come from the maid is not expected to have a mind of her own or a personal agenda, whatever Madam says is the order of the day. A whole lot of us are still servants and we readily say yes sir or yes ma to our master...
Rom 6:16 God's Word Translation
"Don’t you know that if you offer to be someone’s slave, you must obey that master? Either your master is sin, or your master is obedience. Letting sin be your master leads to death. Letting obedience be your master leads to God’s approval".
According to the above passage, we have a choice in the matter, we decide by our actions who our master is. Every time I say yes to lust, lie, causing offences, distrupting someone else's progress or life, forging figures, loot sharing, flirting with someone elses wife or husband and indulgence in besetting sins, I am acknoweldging sin as my master. The fact that we do not see it with a big cane hitting us on the head does not change the fact that it is the one controlling us. How many big people; leaders, politicians, pastors, executives have made sin their master and by so doing destroyed their careers,homes and ministry.
God has paid the price and redeemed us through His own son, let us severe our link to sin so we can walk in freedom, no longer under the slavery of the enemy. This new week let us make up our minds not to sign up for slavery classes under sin. If the son has set you free, you are free indeed!!!
Have a blessed week.
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