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I thought I should take some time to explain this. Welcome to a piece of my heart.
Slave to All - taken from 1 Corinthians 9:19 ( http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=53&chapter=9&version=49 )
More, than a single verse this is an amazing passage, we are all free and yet, inextricably, all slaves. Paul recognized that the choice was his regarding what he was going to be a slave to. Like most, I struggle with enslaving myself correctly. Predominantly I struggle with being a slave to none other than myself.
A slave to self - what is the goal?
To bring it into perspective, one should always think beyond his or her life. It doesn't really matter what you believe regarding what happens after you die (I've got my own thoughts on that I'll perhaps share later), what will survive you? If you are a slave to self - that is where your toil ends. This is where a lot of people in our world today are at, in a painful spiral of self preservation.
Paul, never sought to preserve his own life, his thoughts and actions were beyond himself he sought after the preservation of something far greater than his own life. There are people who will give up their lives for loved ones, for country, for freedom, or democracy. Paul choose to give his life up for something called the Gospel, what freed Him, and what has the power to free us all is Jesus, and his death on the cross to pay a debt we all owe but can't pay.
Freedom is choice of action, free from the confines of your past life fraught with self deceit one may choose to go back, or you can choose differently. Hourly, daily, weekly, you can choose a different path. Paul choose to become a slave to all, so that by some means he might show another the path to true liberty.
Blessings on ya,
J
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