Back in the Saddle

As you have read from the previous Blog posts a lot has been going on around here. I am please to announce that my father is doing well back up and on His feet and so is my mother recovering from her fall. Now that I have mom and dad back together and we have gotten through our VBS as well as my work with a few other here in Central KY I can focus some attention back to the Blog.

For those of you who continue to hang on I greatly thank you and appreciate your prayers. With all the obligations that I have in life the Blog is the first to suffer a cutback. I hope to have enough time now in the foreseeable future to keep this current at least weekly if not more often, well at least until the phone rings =).

The thought for this week is around spiritual Independence. We just celebrated on Saturday our independence day here in the US. This is a day we celebrate the signing of the declaration of independence and our beginning of becoming a free nation. I want to quote the first paragraph from the declaration of independence for those who need a brush up on their history

"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation"

In reading through this I would like to make the same declaration about our spiritual bondage.

"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the spiritual bonds which have enslaved and entangled them with this world. To assume among the powers of the creator of the earth and the creator of man that we should declare the causes which impel us to separate"

While I don't claim to be as eloquent as the men who penned these words I do know that we should all desire to separate from the things of this world-Romans 12:1-2. All who sin are separated from God and enslaved to sin Jn 8:34. Unless we find separation from sin we will die in it and apart from God-Rom 6:23.

In Galatians 4 we read about the redemptive work of Christ. We begin enslaved to the elementary principals of this world but when the fullness of time had come God sent His son to free us from sin and bring us into Him. We are no longer slaves but sons and if sons then heirs-heirs according to the promise that God made to Abraham that through his seed all nations would be blessed with Spiritual freedom. Blessed we are that through Jesus Christ we can separate from the sins of this world and be connected to God.

Free at last from the dominion of sin and free at last to look forward to dwelling with God. Will you continue as a slave or will you give everything you have to be FREE.
MPE