The word slave or slavery tends to carry a negative image with itself. When we think about slaves, besides the past historical occurance between the caucasian and african race, we think of a guy being whipped by his girlfriend or an employee being a slave of his boss at the workplace.
But being a slave to God, what does it bring? Does it bring pain and suffering? Of course not! This passage explains how different being a slave to God really is! Being a slave to God means that we have already accepted his son, Jesus Christ. Through his son, we got to know the father. "But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slave to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life." Servants are usually treated like nothing, the lowest rank of a human back in the old days.
But God offers so much more. Once we offer ourselves to God and not sin, we have eternal life. We were once weak and owned by sin and tempted to sin time and time again, but because we believe in Jesus and his hope to overcome our natural selves and free us from sin, we are saved. From that we cannot help but be slaves to our Lord!
Amen.
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