I read a comment that seems all too familiar these days about how religion is a form of slavery, some system designed to keep us down, etc. I read it on Facebook so I addressed it on Facebook. But I felt it necessary to share this on Christian Music Pusher:

The funny thing is people think they’re free because they don’t believe in God…no religion…no system… No slavery. But you’re still under control of a system. Only this the system of life trials, fleshly desires and death. You’re still practicing a religion of sorts. All religion is is a set of beliefs. You either believe in God or you believe in something else. But then there’s that old devil, who would rather you believe in anything but God. So in your supposed “freedom”, the devil is ultimately who you’ve chosen to believe in, the religion you’ve chosen and the slavery you’ve accepted– who’s end is death…twice. But he won’t tell you that. Is that freedom? Christians aren’t people who have considered themselves “holier than thou” or better than anyone else. Rather Christians are people who have accepted that they are NOT HOLY ENOUGH and in humility have submitted to God through the One who submitted Himself to death and suffering on a cross, that those who would only submit can now truly be free from the system of life trials, fleshly desires and death. Yes there are trials, but God will be with you. Yes there  temptations, but God will help you out and forgive you when you fail. Yes death will come, but life with God will continue. And that brings a real peace. Sounds like a system, a bondage, a religion worth submitting to. I don’t know what you’ve heard, or who’s mislead you, but serving God IS freedom. True religion, that is God approved rather than man-made, isn’t just some feel-good medicine to help people afraid of life and death. There’s plenty of drugs and self-help books for that. This is real and proven. But as Black Sheep says, the choice is yours. Believe it or not.

Consider this applicable verse…
Romans 6:16-23 KJV

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?  But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.  Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.  I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.  For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.  What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.  But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Appropriate for this topic, listen to one of my fave joints by Flame below.

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