Choose You this Day, Whom You Will Serve.

There is a ridiculous notion in many young peoples' heads that goes like this: 'If I were a Christian I'd have to do exactly what the Bible says, when and how it says to do it. That's way too restricting. I want to be free - free to do what my lusts tell me to do, when and how they tell me to do it.'

Oh, is that it means to be free?

Freedom is not possible for human beings. We were created as servants and to rebel is only to switch masters. All people exist either as slaves to God or sin. There is no third option. There are no spiritual free agents. But equality also does not apply to our possible masters either. The One is far more to be desired than any other. In our age of independence and egalitarianism, we must be sure to pay a special heed to passages like the one below.

"Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness."

-Romans 6.16-18