“Becoming A Slave To Righteousness!”

“Becoming A Slave To Righteousness!”(Rom.6:15-19).
I fell in love with this, and pray it happens to me that way: “I prefer to enter Jerusalem as the donkey on which Christ Jesus rode, than the crowd that later turned against him.” You know why? It was the donkey who actually walked on the palm fronds and not Jesus himself. But if that is the reason why, then it would be an exhibition of pride!
If the Lord Jesus Christ is the burden on you, then you have no burden at all. He is the one who makes our heavy loads lighter.
In Jesus and through him we are under grace and no longer under the law. Under grace, mercy is elevated above the law.
This is not to say we should sin because we are not under the law but under grace. Far from it, we become obedient to what is right because what is right is known to us to be the right always.
The law does not stop defaulters if they know that they can outwit the law! My people say “a thief who has not been caught is king.” To put it mildly they way one prelate told a prison inmate: “Courage my son. We are all criminals, only that we who are roaming the streets have not yet been caught.”
Being under grace does not give us freedom from slavery! Being under grace gives us freedom from being slaves to sin, but when we obey the LORD we become slaves to righteousness.
This is Paul’s thanksgiving prayer for us: “Thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have now come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.” May the Holy Spirit help us not to disappoint Paul by deviating from that teaching that has claimed our allegiance.
Like we mentioned earlier, we are not absolutely free as in freedom. “We have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.” So therefore, “Just as we used to offer ourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now we should offer ourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness!”
Under grace we do not have to be reminded of what the law says before becoming righteous, we become righteous because grace reveals the righteousness that lies within each one of us.
Prayer: Holy Spirit guide me on the way of obedience that leads to righteousness. Amen!
Have a blessed day! Peace be with you!
Rev Babila Fochang.