Freedom and Slavery

Welcome to another episode of "Randomly Opened My Bible To A Passage"

Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? 6 Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. 7 He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. 8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. (Job 39:5-8)

God is the one that gives us the power to live free and independently. Like the wild donkey, we will be dependent on our parents for a long time, but then God mysteriously sets us free to make our own way and our own home in the world. The wild donkey does not need to live comfortably in a city, or be enslaved to man, and even so man does not need to be a slave to human expectations and ideas. We all answer to God. We do not need earthly riches to have joy and freedom but we do need to be rich in giving to others.

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather. (1 Corinthians 7:20)

Do not become a slave, but do not seek to throw off the authorities that God has put in place for your protection. The Christian is not called to be a slave to man or a rebel, but a slave of Christ for the blessing of creation now and for eternity.