…you are that one’s slaves whom you obey… —Romans
6:16
The first thing I must be
willing to admit when I begin to examine what controls and dominates me is that
I am the one responsible for having yielded myself to whatever it may be. If I
am a slave to myself, I am to blame because somewhere in the past I yielded to
myself. Likewise, if I obey God I do so because at some point in my life I
yielded myself to Him.
If a child gives in to
selfishness, he will find it to be the most enslaving tyranny on earth. There
is no power within the human soul itself that is capable of breaking the
bondage of the nature created by yielding. For example, yield for one second to
anything in the nature of lust, and although you may hate yourself for having
yielded, you become enslaved to that thing. (Remember what lust is— “I must
have it now,” whether it is the lust of the flesh or the lust of the mind.) No
release or escape from it will ever come from any human power, but only through
the power of redemption. You must yield yourself in utter humiliation to the
only One who can break the dominating power in your life, namely, the Lord
Jesus Christ. “…He has anointed Me…to proclaim liberty to the captives…”
"The
Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to
the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of
sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, Isaiah 61:1
When you yield to something, you
will soon realize the tremendous control it has over you. Even though you say,
“Oh, I can give up that habit whenever I like,” you will know you can’t. You
will find that the habit absolutely dominates you because you willingly yielded
to it. It is easy to sing, “He will break every fetter,” while at the same time
living a life of obvious slavery to yourself. But yielding to Jesus will break
every kind of slavery in any person’s life.
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