Bondage

From Psalm 126 - When the lord delivered Zion from bondage, it seemed like a dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, on our lips there were songs. The heathens themselves said" "What marvels the lord worked for them!" What marvels the Lord worked for us! Indeed we are glad. Deliver us, O Lord, from our bondage as streams in dry land. Those who are sowing in tears will sing when they reap.

Thoughts: Just as the Lord delivered Zion from bondage, he continues today to deliver His people from bondage. The problem for most people is that they don't even know they are in bondage. 

If you look around you will see it. In the conversations overheard at work as people talk about there worries. As they talk about their pastimes that are more like obsessions. When we look at just how much time is spent medicating ourselves with alcohol, television, and other pastimes that keep us from a relationship with the one true God.

Maybe I can see this in others because I, myself, spent years in bondage. The type of bondage we face today is so deceptive that we don't even realize it is happening. But, like the people of Zion, we can be delivered from our bondage once we realize what is holding us bondage. 

When I was finally freed, it literally like a dream. I laughed, oh boy did I laugh. I cried huge cleansing tears that became for me a great source of joy. People around me have noticed and asked why and how I had changed. They saw a person free and loving life. True life lived in the love of the one true God. 

My prayer for everyone today is that they can recognize whatever might be in them that is holding them in bondage. That they might have the courage to make the first step in moving away from whatever keeps them in bondage so that the Lord will have room in their heart to work miracles. That Jesus Christ will be able to send his Holy Spirit to wash away all remnants of the bondage and free us to live a new life in Christ.

Amen