Free From Bondage!
"And you shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free."
John 8: 32
People who read the Bible love it because it presents human life as it
really is: the good, the bad, the ugly—and the funny. Take the time
when
the prophet Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal to a power encounter
on Mount Carmel. The contest was to see who was greater—the God of
Israel or the god Baal.
When Baal didn’t deliver, Elijah spared no sarcastic
efforts to humiliate the false god and his prophets
(1 Kings 18:16-45).
Or take the time Jesus spoke to a group of Jews about spiritual freedom
(John 8:31-36). They retorted, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and have
never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will be made
free’?” (verse 33) Never been in
bondage?
How about the four hundred years their ancestors spent enslaved in Egypt?
How about the northern tribes of Israel being enslaved to Assyria? How about the two southern tribes spending seventy years enslaved in Babylon? And as they spoke, they were in bondage to Rome! It'd be funny if it weren’t so
sad.
The spiritual freedom of which Jesus spoke comes only
by grace and truth. Free yourself from the bondage of
sin today (Galatians 5:1).
"Spiritual darkness is
spiritual bondage."
Matthew Henry
