It’s heartening to know that we were all slaves to our own sins, but were redeemed by the blood of Jesus when he sacrificed his life for us at the Cross. Now, we are all sons (and daughters) of God, set free from the slavery of sins and called as one of God’s family when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Saviour. Such grace. Such love. We should always remind ourselves that the price of our freedom does not come cheap, and be constantly on the vigil that we do not fall back into the trappings of the sins of this world.
Sometimes it’s easier to see the specks of dirt in others’ eyes than the load of debris in our own eyes. It’s human nature to criticize others than to judge ourselves. That is why Jesus had to die for us to redeem our sins. Yes, judging, slandering and cursing others is also a sin. The Bible says, those who judge us do not love us, and their voices should not hold weight. Let God judge them for their slandering ways. But we should not judge them the way we have been judged, or we would have sinned. As the wise Mahatma Gandhi once famously quoted, “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
As children of God, let’s constantly be reminded that we do not become a slave of our own sins.
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