We want to be free to do what we want, and as a result, we become slaves to sin.
We submit to God as our master and let Him have ultimate control, we end up in total freedom.
How’s that for irony?
I appreciate, too, that today Neil touches on what (to me) trumps the question of who is in control. He points out the joy of the experience of walking with the Father. We don’t submit to Him because we have to; we do it because we want to.
And it occurs to me that it’s all about us wanting to… When He put Adam in the garden, He gave him a choice: obey, or don’t. All of His dealings with Israel – His courting her, instructing her, pleading with her to come back – were centered on wanting Israel to willingly serve Him.
He wants me to want the thing that’s going to be best for me. Because of the way God created me, I will never be totally happy or fulfilled unless I’m walking close to God.
Thinking about all this makes me amazed, and grateful. It tells me about the character of the God I serve; it makes me want to walk even closer beside Him.
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