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A Slave to Sin No Longer
Today is the first post by Aaron McCartney. He’ll be blogging at the Sex Rev twice a month or so. Make sure you say hello!
“This letter is from Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, chosen by God to be an apostle and sent out to preach his Good News.”
Think is the first thing that caught my eye while reading God’s word about a month and a half ago, and it’s still rocking my world. I’ve read Romans many times, and this verse has never struck anything inside at all. It was the phrase “a slave of Jesus Christ.” So, doing what any human this side of the universe would do, I jumped on Google and typed in “define:slave”.
These were some things that stuck out:
1. Nowhere in any definition did it say slaves worked for free.
2. Slaves were loyal to their masters.
3. Slaves were very hard workers.
Then it really hit me: God even had a good intention for slavery. As humans, we have put holes in the ozone. God intended our World to be a beautiful place, a place where everywhere we look we see God’s creation, not steel factories and strip joints. We also have created bad intentions and ideas for marriage. God intended marriage to be a harmonious unity of bodies that are one.
As humans, we messed up the actual meaning of slavery. God didn’t mean it to be torture, abuse, and harassment of “workers” who are sold and bought with no wages, barely any food and clothing, and crappy sleeping areas. God meant it to mean loyalty, working for a master and while expecting nothing, given good clothes, good food, and a private room for the deeds the slave does for his or her master.
We need to sell ourselves into slavery, just as Paul did, and do it God’s way. How does this apply to us? We have to die to ourselves and be alive in Jesus. That’s the basis of being a follower of Christ. For guys, that means living pure, leading your spouse, fiance, girlfriend. That means living in God’s Word and letting it bleed out of you. For girls, that means cover your bodies. I don’t want other guys to see my fiance’s cleavage. That’s for me in marriage; that’s off-limits, for no one else to see. Girls, save yourself the heartache. If enough guys date you because you’re exposing your double-Ds, eventually you will have a DD heart: Done like Dinner.
It`s not worth it!
Someday I want to be able to say “My name is Aaron McCartney, and I am a slave of Jesus Christ”. I pray to my Father that you can too.
Aaron
March 24th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Wow, well said. I have never ever thought about slavery in that way before. The reality is that we are all a slave to something. Either we are a slave of an oppressive, cruel, evil master, sata, or we are a loyal servant of a kind, good, and loving master, Jesus. There are ONLY two options.
March 24th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
I just have to say…I am really tired of guys writing messages to cover up their bodies…and pretending like girls uncover their bodies to make guys lust after them…Its not true…these girls are hurting…and are trying to fill that hurt by having guys like them and pay attention to them…further more no guy deserves a girl purity…Girls should stay pure to honor their relationship with their god….god deserves purity not men…so girls stay pure for god…and if you haven’t been pure in the past…let go of that guilt becuase god loves youjust as much as thoose girls who remained pure…and he will make you new…as for you guys that keep telling girls to cover up their bodies and acting like you own this girl purity you dont…god does and if you are lucky to get a good girl well then be thankful god shared this with you…instead of being judgemental and telling girls no guys will like them if they are too “impure” they will never get a guy…who cares if they never get a guy…if they get gods love and affection and relationship with him that is more than enough…god deserves your purity…and sole attention.
March 25th, 2009 at 6:00 am
Totally fair Ann! And I agree, purity must be rooted in a love for God. But I’d like to know what you think of the girls I know who call themselves Christians, haven’t been hurt, haven’t messed around, and are STILL totally immoral in the way they dress! Are they completely clueless? What about after someone has talked to them about it and they still keep dressing provocatively? If a girl dresses immodestly, the root cause isn’t always hurt…it might just be sin.
March 26th, 2009 at 7:05 am
Ann you bring up a good point. I do agree with Jay in that sometimes the root cause is sin more than pain. The problem is that many girls experience pain, which causes them to dress immoestly to get attention, and then WHINE that they can’t get a good guy who respects them. And I know of several girls who call themselves Christ followers that dress in a way that makes guys stumble. If you are hurting and don’t know Christ, that is totally different from if you call yourself a Christ-follower and refuse to live right. Christ calls us to obedience whether we are hurt or not…he always provides us with strength to overcome our hurt WITHOUT sinning if we ask him for help every day. So in my opinion, someone who calls themself a Christian and dresses immodestly out of their hurt is sinning, just like if a person who abuses others out of their hurt is sinning. Hurt is not an excuse.