Today's encouragement comes from 2 Peter 2:19b, where we read these words:
" . . . for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bond-age."All of us are in "service" and "bondage" to someone. The way for us to know who this person is, is to ask ourselves, "About whom do I most often think? About whom am I practically obsessed?" The answer to these queries reveal who our human master is.
When the master is another fallen human being (be they good or bad)—this is a miserable bondage. When the Master is The God/Man King of glory, the Lord Jesus Christ—this is a liberating "bondage." When the master is self—this is torturous labor. But when the Master is God—this is sweet service. Let all Christ's faithful churchmen gladly serve under His banner today!
[Puritan quote of the day: "Lord, let the magnet of Your Spirit draw my heart upward. Lord, dig the earth out of my heart; teach me how to possess the world, and not love it; how to hold it in my hand, and not let it get into my heart.” —Thomas Watson, in, "The Ten Commandments"]
