This morning my cousin tagged me in an atheist post on Facebook.
It was a meme that said, “If God created man and angels but only gave man free will, doesn’t that mean that the angels are slaves and that satan and his followers fought for their freedom?”
That meme really got me thinking. I’m not going to go into the ‘free will’ aspects of it, but the ‘slave’ part.
Dictionary.com defines “Slave” as a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
No one wants to be a slave, do they? But are we ever truly free?
If you go through the Bible you’ll discover that everyone is a slave to something.
Here’s what Paul has to say in Romans 6:16-23
“Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey – whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery 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 to 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.”
Paul is saying you’re either slave to sin or a slave to righteousness.
Think about your life… what sins have you been a slave to? How did you overcome them?
Regards to the meme, it looks like satan and his followers fought for their freedom from righteousness to become slaves to sin. Not a good choice.
Would you rather be a slave to the world (which leads to death) or a slave to God (which leads to eternal life)?
Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below.
Now go out and be a light in the world!