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 to know who this being is, is to ask oneself, "About whom do I most often think? About whom am I practically obsessed?" The answer to this query reveals our ulti-mate master.
When the master is another fallen human being (be he or she good or bad)—this is a miserable bondage. When the Master is the King of glory, the Lord Jesus Christ, this is a liberating "bondage." When the master is self or Satan—this is torturous labor. But when the Master is the Triune God, this is sweet service. Let all Christ's faithful churchmen gladly serve under the banner of Christ 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"]
