My souls keep seeking and searching.... When I look upon my self, I wonder that each new day, naturally or instinctively I always want something new and better and other thing that is sometimes I just feel the hunger of my soul wake up when my physical body rise up from my bed.
Without noticing it, or in a better word when I was not aware, it is easily for me to get driven by it. And sadly, even this can be self-seeking. Is that anything wrong with it? Isn't just natural thing that we born with? And I am convinced that the world certainly answer: Oh yes, of course this is just humanly thing! Your job is just fulfill them, maximize your potential and make your self up and be merry! Your life is yours! And none else can make you happy other than your own choice! You can, and will be what you want and simply to say: just do it! You're fee and unique! Come on, feel free and safe to fulfill and actualize your self at your best!
But is it really? I am doubt. The first one, each one of humankind as the fallen being who was once fell to sin and thus lost his glory and separated from his genuine source of his very satisfaction, God!
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First, we know that we are not our own, we do not own ourselves, we did not create ourselves. We owe our existence to our parents, yes, but even more to God.
ReplyDeleteSecond, we are also not our own because by being born into this world, we along with Adam and Eve have sold ourselves as slaves to sin and death.
But wait, there is more.
God who created us is the Father of Jesus, His Only-Begotten Son. This Son of God became a human being, a man, and remained God. By His death on the Cross, and by His resurrection, He has paid the price for us, and now we are no longer the property of sin and death, but the property of God.
The Word of God says about us, "You were bought at a price. Do not become the slaves of other men!"
But wait, there is still more.
Not only did the Son of God purchase us for Himself by His blood, being the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, but He has also adopted us into His family. We are now His brothers, we are the children of God, and we can now call God "our Father."
The Word of God says, "To everyone who accepts Jesus, He gives power to become the children of God."
So we are not our own property, yet the One who does own us has changed us from mere property, mere slaves, into His own children.
Being now His children, we are his heirs, we inherit His Kingdom as one of His own family.
Knowing the truth of all these things, let us give ourselves back to Him every day, Who is our good and loving God, Who has transformed slavery into freedom, and death into life.
Amen! Thanks for your kind and encouraging comment, Romanos!
ReplyDeleteIndeed, when I am reading the last paragraph, this reminds me to the grace of God, which transforms us from a sinner to be a saint!
*your comment's last paragraph I mean
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