Yesterday we had a visitor at our door when we came home from town. "She" was the cutest little dog which belongs to our neighbors down the street! She had somehow gotten off her leash and was trying to tell us something with her barking and wagging of the tail. Usually the neighbors are home, so we just ignored her and figured she would go home. Afterall, once you pet or feed a dog you have a friend for life, and we didn't want to steal the neighbor's dog that way!
Eventually she went back to her house, but every once in a while we would see her come out on the street and bark and wag her tail. Later that afternoon, a few neighborhood children gathered around wondering what to do with the cute little dog? So I asked them, does the dog have a leash? We could leash her up until the owners got home. We walked over to the dog's "home," found the leash, and hooked it to her collar. After that the dog was perfectly content and happy.
Now that is a strange thing indeed. isn't it? That little dog should have rejoiced to be free from her bondage of being chained up day after day. She should have been happy to run and play and explore like dogs should do. But she really felt totally out of place being off her "chain." She was out of her comfort zone. She seemed to not know that being chained up all the time was living a life of bondage.
Jesus ran into the same kind of thinking, of people who were in the same kind of bondage:
Joh 8:31-36 "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
The truth of Jesus Christ, found in The Holy Bible, if obeyed, will set us free from the bondage of sin. Being born a Jew was not enough for salvation. Even being born a Seventh-day Adventist is not enough for salvation! We need Jesus Christ! People have to leave the comfort zone of sinful living and that is only possible through coming to Jesus Christ and learning of Him, and obeying His truth, otherwise we go right back into our comfort zone or bondage to our sins. Many people abhor slavery, yet they are slaves to their own sins and that is the worst bondage. How sad! We should be more than happy to obey Christ's invitation found in Matthew 11:28-30, and find sweet rest in Jesus Christ from the Devil's chains of disobedience which leads to "weeping and gnashing of teeth", not happy wagging of the tail.
God bless you through Jesus Christ our Saviour, today!
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