“But now,
after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to
the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?”
Gal 4:9
Adoption is a
conscience act to remove something from surrounding elements they cannot
control or overcome. It’s this act of adoption in which Christ removed you from
the elements of this world, redeeming you from the bondage that makes you a
servant to this world, to becoming a child of the king (vs 5). How sad for a
puppy to be adopted from the bondage of a shelter, being nurtured and loved; offered
provisions and shelter; healed and restored, to only escape and return to the
shelter? By way of God’s adoption, He has freed you from anything bringing you
into bondage, unless you return to it! Too many find more comfort in the familiarity
of their fears and pain than in the unknown freedom God calls them to. The Israelites
murmured, desiring to return to their bondage in Egypt, than to face the
unknown freedom God was offering them. Be cautious not to work so hard trying
to fit into a world you were adopted out of to be set apart (2 Cor 6:17).
That which you
submit yourself to is that which bounds you, but the word of God is not bound
(2 Tim 2:9)
HSAY…Todd
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