We live in a world of utter chaos, though we have the sun
for illumination, there is total darkness on the face of this earth, and just
like the stars in sky at night, there are just a few people shining through
this dark world. We live in a world where insanity is the order of the day, a
world where people’s only desire is to please their selfish needs, totally
oblivious to the harmful effect it has on the next person. We live in the world
where children are sold as sex slaves just to enrich a person’s pocket, a world
where the don’ts are the dos and the dos are the don’ts. In short we live in a
world ruled by SIN.
There is one simple question I ask myself - is that how our
Father intended it to be? The book of truth, the Holy Bible declares the
intention of God for man on this earth in the book of Genesis as being the King
of this world. God wanted man to have dominion of everything on this earth.
Simply God wanted us to be royalty and one distinct feature of a royal is the
access to slaves and servants. God wanted us to control all things and let
everything be subjected to us including Sin. We were supposed to have control
over sin, sin was supposed to be slave to us. In Gen. 4:7 the Bible says “……………
then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you
must subdue it and be its master.” This was a warning God gave to one the
earliest men Cain. It is quite amazing to see the words of Solomon in the book
of Ecclesiastes 7:10 be very true in these days. It reads “I have even seen
servants riding horseback like princes – and princes walking like servants.” I
don’t think a day will come when the Queen of England will allow a servant
power to rule over her, never!! That will be total insanity. So the why are we
allowing our slave to rule us then. Our kingship is not of this earth, if
earthly kings and queens know the power they hold, why then have we so easily
relinquished ours to sin. We are living in the day and age where the slave has
become master to the King. You see the moment Adam sinned he gave his authority
to sin.
We live in a day where people created in the image of God
defile the name of their creator. A world, where a man who was created in the
image of God, chooses to bow down to things created from the imagination of
God. The books of Romans chapter 1 verse 23 describe this authority given to
slave called sin this way “and instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living
God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals
and reptiles.” (NLT)
God’s plan is for us to rule over sin. Let’s be more aware
of out power and strength we have in He who has created us and stop the cliché of
saying we are weak and so it is okay that we sin. Let me conclude with words of
Paul in Romans 6 vs 6 – 7, telling us how have overcome sin “We know that our
old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power
in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. 7 For when we died with Christ we
were set free from the power of sin.” (NLT)
The only way for each of us to win back our authority as the
maters over sin and declare permanent slavery to sin is to accept Jesus as our
Lord and personal saviour. Only then can we also become the maters we are meant
to be.
Bless!
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