Friday - Pentecost 3
Readings:
Ecclesiastes 5:1-7
Galatians 3:15-22
Matthew 14:22-36
Meditation
The scriptures declare that we are all prisoners of sin, so we receive God’s promise of freedom only by believing in Jesus Christ (Gal 3:22 NLT). The earth is like one giant prison. We all can feel the bars placed around us. Those things we don’t want to do that we do anyway. The law convicts us of those sins of thought, word and deed, what we have done and what we have left undone. But the gospel breaks the chains. The warden on this world has no power over Christ and those He has freed. In faith in Christ we have been taken from prisoners on death row. We have not just been set free to do it again. No, more than freedom we have been made heirs of life. By becoming a part of the body of Christ through the promise that prison of sin has no hold on us but instead we are aimed toward life. We are free to increase life by witnessing to the one who freed us.
May you experience the freedom of the Gospel that removes the chains of sin, death and that warden the devil.
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