“Set Free To Become Slaves Of God!”

“Set Free To Become Slaves Of God!”(Rom.6:20-24).
Sama told Ndip his teetotaler friend, “I have stopped taking alcohol.” Ndip asked him, “Why did you begin in the first place?” “What did you gain or achieve during the time you were drinking?”
There are certainly some things that we do not need to start doing. There are things we do with regularity without reflecting on whether they are beneficial or not. Wasted years are the result of having lived a life of wild goose chase.
We occasionally make wrong choices and eventually suffer the consequences. In life’s journey, we often miss our steps, we stumble, and sometimes we fall. But we must struggle to get up and continue. You never fail until you stop trying.
The Almighty and Loving Father has shown us the right way that we should walk in it. It is “the gift of God” which “is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Paul raises the awareness of us who have wandered far away from God: “When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Indeed, from where we are standing, when we look back to where we were, we should be ashamed. That’s why we should rejoice in the amazing grace of God that found and saved wretched sinners like us. We are free from the bondage of sin; free to be under the Master of Righteousness and Light!
Choose, therefore, the way of righteousness and reap the benefit that leads to holiness. But the wages of sin is spiritual death.
Prayer: Holy Spirit, guide our feet to the place of the Lord. Amen!
Have a blessed day! Peace be with you!
Rev Babila Fochang.
07/08/2025.