Yesterday I encouraged you to take a step in breaking the cycle of repeated sin, trusting in the promise that Christ has come to break the power they had over us so that we need not be slaves to impurity any longer.
However, the life of slavery didn't end there! In today's reading we discover that we are now to become slaves to a new life – a life of righteousness.
"Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. 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. Romans 6:19-23 [NIV]
How does that make you feel? What is the difference between being a slave to sin and a slave to righteousness? Surely slavery is the same no matter what it is to?
The difference comes in how it should make us feel. A life of slavery to sin leaves us drained, angered, with low self worth and a feeling of failure. A life of slavery to righteousness should have us feeling full of life, actively seeking new challenges, walking with head held high and knowing that we are making a difference and are walking in obedience. We live our lives knowing that this new slavery is leading us to an eternal life of freedom, rather than committing us to an eternal life of hell.
What step will you take today to become a better slave to righteousness, and take you a step further away from your life of slavery to sin?
Corinne Mason.
Read the Bible in a year: Psalm 87:1-7, Hosea 1:1-2:23, Romans 6:11-23
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