STEWARDSHIP FOCUS
FREEDOM TO SERVE Sidney A. Rand
You my brothers, were called to be free. Galatians 5:13(NIV)
There are two ways to look at freedom. It can be something to enjoy for oneself and it can be a way to use life in the service of others.
It is not wrong to enjoy freedom if you have it.
God did not intend us to be slaves. The Bible depicts sinfulness as a form of slavery, as a lack of freedom. God wants us to be free people who are able to enjoy life and appreciate it to the full.
But there is something greater than enjoying freedom in a selfish way. That is to serve other people. The person who is most free is the person who chooses to do something he or she doesn’t have to do.
Children often are free to play and not to help with household chores. But they are also free to do these things. God is pleased when we make use of the freedom from the power of sin that he has given us through Christ to use our lives so that others will benefit. Christians are free to do good, as God wants us to.